While Boris Johnson is under consideration for our regular 'Quote of the Day' kudos, we couldn't help but make a special edition out of this gem...
"The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). It also won the 2008 Olympics, according to highly credible EU-funded sources. Now, it has upped its game yet another notch and raked in the film world's greatest prize - an Oscar...
After such an accomplishment, all eyes now turn to Euro 2012 (the football tournament, not the currency), where we're told the EU has an excellent chance of repeating its record of success."
- the ever invaluable Open Europe are reduced to open laughter at the expense of the ludicrous European Empire.
Ahh, the EU. It either makes you cry tears of laughter at how ludicrous it is, else makes your eyes water in pure rage.
The only 'Oscar' the EU deserves is being told to 'foxtrot, Oscar!'...
Monday, 28 February 2011
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Middle East democracy spreading Cameron denying democracy at home (P.S. he won't give you a referendum)
This is hilarious. Listen to our great cast iron Prime Minister (stop sniggering at the back) talking on Al Jazeera about democracy and the will of the people, repression and so on...
...and then hear him say that the people can naff off, he won't give you a referendum on the European Empire because he and the political elite are scared of the answer.
Democracy? Representation? Greater freedom? Greater rights?
You ridiculous plonker, Dave.
Get that? 17m 10s in is what you're looking for...
And then - well, let's allow Daniel Hannan MEP to respond. He says:
Not so ridiculous, Dan. The AV option is a win-win for the political elite. They can keep the status quo, or go for AV which makes it impossible for smaller parties.
What you don't do, if you're the political elite, is offer a referendum on something where you might not like the answer.
The European Empire is, to them, all of the luxury without the criminal prosecutions that come from fiddling the taxpayer via expenses.
That's why the political elite want the European Empire. Bugger all to do with trade or democracy.
That, and the cementing off of themselves from the verdict of the people. Power, endless power, that one doesn't even need to get elected to seize.
The comments page on Conservative Home makes for very interesting reading - but most of it will be very uncomfortable reading for David Cameron and his Conservative Party.
There may be trouble ahead...
...and then hear him say that the people can naff off, he won't give you a referendum on the European Empire because he and the political elite are scared of the answer.
Democracy? Representation? Greater freedom? Greater rights?
You ridiculous plonker, Dave.
Get that? 17m 10s in is what you're looking for...
And then - well, let's allow Daniel Hannan MEP to respond. He says:
"The European question divides the parties internally; it’s a matter of major constitutional importance; there is public demand for a vote; there is a disjuncture between Parliament and people; and, not least, the three parties keep promising to hold such a ballot.
There is something faintly surreal about holding a referendum which no one asked for on a voting system which neither of the two Coalition parties supported, while refusing to hold one which the country does demand, and which both Coalition parties were recently pledging."
Not so ridiculous, Dan. The AV option is a win-win for the political elite. They can keep the status quo, or go for AV which makes it impossible for smaller parties.
What you don't do, if you're the political elite, is offer a referendum on something where you might not like the answer.
The European Empire is, to them, all of the luxury without the criminal prosecutions that come from fiddling the taxpayer via expenses.
That's why the political elite want the European Empire. Bugger all to do with trade or democracy.
That, and the cementing off of themselves from the verdict of the people. Power, endless power, that one doesn't even need to get elected to seize.
The comments page on Conservative Home makes for very interesting reading - but most of it will be very uncomfortable reading for David Cameron and his Conservative Party.
There may be trouble ahead...
Sunday Paper Review: 27th February 2011
This week's paper review has a particularly international dimension, unsurprisingly. Which means our joke about Nick Clegg the Trainee Bellboy will have to wait until later.
Naturally, the situation in Libya dominates many of the Sunday newspapers.
The Independent on Sunday picks up on a report that was being carried by Sky News throughout Saturday - namely that Tony Blair has been making phone calls to Colonel Gaddafi.
You'd have thought that, after Iraq, he might have preferred to steer well clear of war zones. Perhaps he's making little gentle enquiries...
Gaddafi: Yes? I'm fighting off the uprising! What you want!
Blair: Muammar, me old mucker, it's your old mate Tone...
Gaddafi: Who this? [aside] Yes, shoot them! Shoot everybody! Give me head on cocktail stick!
Blair: Jolly good sport, old chap. Of course, we banned that in our country - bloodsport. Awfully good fun too, pissing those dreadful Tories off.
Gaddafi: What you on about? You lunatic! [aside] Where protester? Nuke the flea ridden protester! I nuke him myself! Give me nuke!
Blair: Yes, it was on that subject I wanted to have a chat, old bean...
Gaddafi: Who you call Old Queen? Do I sound like that slime crook Mandelson?
Blair: Ahh, but he is the People's Slime Crook, Muammar...
Gadaffi: For the love of beheading, what you want!?
Blair: Well, it's like this. Georgie Junior and I have asked everyone else... have YOU seen Saddam's weapons of mass destruction?
Gadaffi: Yes, in fairy story! Now get off telephone! I have to go kill a few hundred thousand protesters!
Blair: Well, you're jolly direct. It's going to take years to achieve population reduction through starvation in the West... we're having to blame it on the weather, you know!
Gadaffi: Go away, ridiculous man. And send me more tank and battleship! I give you oil! I send you shipload of another million Labour voters! What you want? Name what price you want!
Blair: No, that was it. Keep up the good work.
Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah. Paper review. So anyway, there's that.
On a related issue, The People has a strange headline which reads: "Let's hope for an uprising in Iran to preserve Middle East peace."
What? The kind of 'Middle East peace' that will follow the imposition of global government on us all after we're all made to suffer what is looking like the infancy of World War III already?
Hmmm... that kind of peace I can do without.
Want Middle East peace? Getting shot of politicians, bankers and globalists would probably do it. Nothing nasty needed. Just a nice one way ticket to Mars on the next available space flight for them all?
The Sunday Telegraph rakes over the smouldering embers of the Republic of Ireland, in search of a phoenix. It states that the General Election results show "a huge popular backlash against a European-IMF austerity programme" in the country.
Always knowing how to endear themselves, the European Union has stuck two fingers up at the people of Ireland, a diplomat telling the newspaper that - effectively - they couldn't care less what the people or the Government of Ireland think.
Yet fear not, dear Irish cousin! You have a patriotic hero in your midst and his name is Declan Ganley. He is quoted in the report as saying: "The euro is insolvent. The only question is whether Ireland should be sacrificed to keep the Ponzi scheme going. We have to have a Plan B to the misnamed bailout, which is to go back to the Irish Punt."
Yes, dear Ireland. Default is where the game is. Save all of the people of Europe from this tyranny. Default, and bring the entire lot crashing down like a house of cards. You let us down once by surrendering on the Lisbon Treaty... don't let us down again. The liberation of the people of Europe is in your hands... and not for the first time.
We'll get the popcorn...
There is a brilliant, brilliant piece of writing in the Mail on Sunday and we take our hat off to Glen Owen and Martin Delgado who wrote it.
The open narrative on traitors, treason and treachery - now commonplace whilst rarely heard of a couple of years ago - started with the people.
So, we're glad to see the Mail on Sunday picking up our baton and printing a headline which declares: "VT-Day: For you, time traitors, the war is over – Mail on Sunday triumphs in its campaign to prevent Berlin Time being imposed on Britain".
You can deduce the story from the wonderful headline - but even that pales into insignificance when contrasted with a paragraph in the report.
It says: "The proposal [to shift us to Berlin time] was even backed in a Leader page opinion piece in The Times – perhaps appropriately, given that the same newspaper backed the appeasement of Hitler in the Thirties and Stalin in the Forties."
We're sure The Times (£) aren't laughing, but we are. We thought it one of the most brilliant pieces of writing - and most daring - that we've seen in a long time. That it comes in the mainstream media, too...
Mail on Sunday, that is a brilliant piece of writing. You may claim three points for the league table of patriotism...
The Observer reports that huge numbers of us "would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party if it was not associated with violence and fascist imagery". The claim comes in a report dealing with the findings of a survey which massively highlights the disconnect between the policies being operated from Westminster and Whitehall from the wishes of the people.
Despite the fact that a greater percentage of "Asian Britons" want "all immigration into the UK to be stopped permanently" than do "white Britons", the report is illustrated with stereotypical pictures of white faced, St. George Cross masked men and put under a headline suggesting that this is indicative of "huge support for far right".
They just don't get it, do they?
Perhaps they could explain why the majority of public opinion - according to their own report - should be described as "far right".
What is "far right" when it is the majority opinion of the people?
It's obviously the kind of "far right" which is subtitled: "They don't agree with us! Quick! Find an insult to chuck at them!" kind of "far right" as usual.
Here's a true story. About five or six years ago, I made myself very unpopular in certain circles when I expressed the view that ordinary people were being alienated and were fearful of having an opinion. I warned that the outcome of that would be the exact opposite of what certain media and certain political parties might have wished.
So, here's some more advice. There is real anger 'out there' over what has been done to this country - both in terms of the European Union and in terms of the Labour gerrymandering exercise known as mass immigration and multiculturalism.
If I were a wise politician, I would seek to do something to reassure the public.
More ignoring the public in the Sunday Express which reports on more ridiculous windmills being stuck up to deface the beauty of the natural environment. The blight on our green and pleasant land that are wind turbines are defacing the wondrous artistry of Gaia in the Lake District.
Thousands of people attempted to become involved in direct democracy and fairer votes by writing to express an opinion against the monstrous carbuncles blighting the natural landscape, but the mechanical eyesores have prevailed.
Yes, we are deliberately accentuating the irony of the situation. What would you prefer? That I just write: "Oh, fetch me an axe?".
And finally... the Sunday Mirror reports that Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is actually... a Geordie. Named Mark.
One of these hot Thai babes is named Mark, too... but which?
Naturally, the situation in Libya dominates many of the Sunday newspapers.
The Independent on Sunday picks up on a report that was being carried by Sky News throughout Saturday - namely that Tony Blair has been making phone calls to Colonel Gaddafi.
You'd have thought that, after Iraq, he might have preferred to steer well clear of war zones. Perhaps he's making little gentle enquiries...
Gaddafi: Yes? I'm fighting off the uprising! What you want!
Blair: Muammar, me old mucker, it's your old mate Tone...
Gaddafi: Who this? [aside] Yes, shoot them! Shoot everybody! Give me head on cocktail stick!
Blair: Jolly good sport, old chap. Of course, we banned that in our country - bloodsport. Awfully good fun too, pissing those dreadful Tories off.
Gaddafi: What you on about? You lunatic! [aside] Where protester? Nuke the flea ridden protester! I nuke him myself! Give me nuke!
Blair: Yes, it was on that subject I wanted to have a chat, old bean...
Gaddafi: Who you call Old Queen? Do I sound like that slime crook Mandelson?
Blair: Ahh, but he is the People's Slime Crook, Muammar...
Gadaffi: For the love of beheading, what you want!?
Blair: Well, it's like this. Georgie Junior and I have asked everyone else... have YOU seen Saddam's weapons of mass destruction?
Gadaffi: Yes, in fairy story! Now get off telephone! I have to go kill a few hundred thousand protesters!
Blair: Well, you're jolly direct. It's going to take years to achieve population reduction through starvation in the West... we're having to blame it on the weather, you know!
Gadaffi: Go away, ridiculous man. And send me more tank and battleship! I give you oil! I send you shipload of another million Labour voters! What you want? Name what price you want!
Blair: No, that was it. Keep up the good work.
Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah. Paper review. So anyway, there's that.
On a related issue, The People has a strange headline which reads: "Let's hope for an uprising in Iran to preserve Middle East peace."
What? The kind of 'Middle East peace' that will follow the imposition of global government on us all after we're all made to suffer what is looking like the infancy of World War III already?
Hmmm... that kind of peace I can do without.
Want Middle East peace? Getting shot of politicians, bankers and globalists would probably do it. Nothing nasty needed. Just a nice one way ticket to Mars on the next available space flight for them all?
The Sunday Telegraph rakes over the smouldering embers of the Republic of Ireland, in search of a phoenix. It states that the General Election results show "a huge popular backlash against a European-IMF austerity programme" in the country.
Always knowing how to endear themselves, the European Union has stuck two fingers up at the people of Ireland, a diplomat telling the newspaper that - effectively - they couldn't care less what the people or the Government of Ireland think.
Yet fear not, dear Irish cousin! You have a patriotic hero in your midst and his name is Declan Ganley. He is quoted in the report as saying: "The euro is insolvent. The only question is whether Ireland should be sacrificed to keep the Ponzi scheme going. We have to have a Plan B to the misnamed bailout, which is to go back to the Irish Punt."
Yes, dear Ireland. Default is where the game is. Save all of the people of Europe from this tyranny. Default, and bring the entire lot crashing down like a house of cards. You let us down once by surrendering on the Lisbon Treaty... don't let us down again. The liberation of the people of Europe is in your hands... and not for the first time.
We'll get the popcorn...
There is a brilliant, brilliant piece of writing in the Mail on Sunday and we take our hat off to Glen Owen and Martin Delgado who wrote it.
The open narrative on traitors, treason and treachery - now commonplace whilst rarely heard of a couple of years ago - started with the people.
So, we're glad to see the Mail on Sunday picking up our baton and printing a headline which declares: "VT-Day: For you, time traitors, the war is over – Mail on Sunday triumphs in its campaign to prevent Berlin Time being imposed on Britain".
You can deduce the story from the wonderful headline - but even that pales into insignificance when contrasted with a paragraph in the report.
It says: "The proposal [to shift us to Berlin time] was even backed in a Leader page opinion piece in The Times – perhaps appropriately, given that the same newspaper backed the appeasement of Hitler in the Thirties and Stalin in the Forties."
We're sure The Times (£) aren't laughing, but we are. We thought it one of the most brilliant pieces of writing - and most daring - that we've seen in a long time. That it comes in the mainstream media, too...
Mail on Sunday, that is a brilliant piece of writing. You may claim three points for the league table of patriotism...
The Observer reports that huge numbers of us "would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party if it was not associated with violence and fascist imagery". The claim comes in a report dealing with the findings of a survey which massively highlights the disconnect between the policies being operated from Westminster and Whitehall from the wishes of the people.
Despite the fact that a greater percentage of "Asian Britons" want "all immigration into the UK to be stopped permanently" than do "white Britons", the report is illustrated with stereotypical pictures of white faced, St. George Cross masked men and put under a headline suggesting that this is indicative of "huge support for far right".
They just don't get it, do they?
Perhaps they could explain why the majority of public opinion - according to their own report - should be described as "far right".
What is "far right" when it is the majority opinion of the people?
It's obviously the kind of "far right" which is subtitled: "They don't agree with us! Quick! Find an insult to chuck at them!" kind of "far right" as usual.
Here's a true story. About five or six years ago, I made myself very unpopular in certain circles when I expressed the view that ordinary people were being alienated and were fearful of having an opinion. I warned that the outcome of that would be the exact opposite of what certain media and certain political parties might have wished.
So, here's some more advice. There is real anger 'out there' over what has been done to this country - both in terms of the European Union and in terms of the Labour gerrymandering exercise known as mass immigration and multiculturalism.
If I were a wise politician, I would seek to do something to reassure the public.
More ignoring the public in the Sunday Express which reports on more ridiculous windmills being stuck up to deface the beauty of the natural environment. The blight on our green and pleasant land that are wind turbines are defacing the wondrous artistry of Gaia in the Lake District.
Thousands of people attempted to become involved in direct democracy and fairer votes by writing to express an opinion against the monstrous carbuncles blighting the natural landscape, but the mechanical eyesores have prevailed.
Yes, we are deliberately accentuating the irony of the situation. What would you prefer? That I just write: "Oh, fetch me an axe?".
And finally... the Sunday Mirror reports that Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is actually... a Geordie. Named Mark.
One of these hot Thai babes is named Mark, too... but which?
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Wikileaks' Assange - the full damning attack on the EU Arrest Warrant
Dear World
Help this go global.
This is what Russia Today will carry, but most people in Britain are oblivious to.
Whatever you think of Wikileaks and Assange, he here accurately paints a picture of the fascist tool which is the European Arrest Warrant... which flies in the face of our own Habeas Corpus and the Magna Carta.
As Western leaders criticise the Middle East and North Africa, may the world unite in shaming the European Union and the complicit traitors who are supposed to govern Britain in accordance with the will of the people.
Help this go global.
This is what Russia Today will carry, but most people in Britain are oblivious to.
Whatever you think of Wikileaks and Assange, he here accurately paints a picture of the fascist tool which is the European Arrest Warrant... which flies in the face of our own Habeas Corpus and the Magna Carta.
As Western leaders criticise the Middle East and North Africa, may the world unite in shaming the European Union and the complicit traitors who are supposed to govern Britain in accordance with the will of the people.
Friday, 25 February 2011
Diana crash aftermath witness: "This is a conspiracy, I don't have a doubt..."
Okay, they have a book to flog. Fair point.
That said, everyone accepts that these two were eyewitnesses to the immediate aftermath of whatever happened to our Princess.
Interesting revelation at 5m 02s in...
And, just to be clear, here is the transcript of their evidence to the Scott Baker inquest which found that Diana was unlawfully killed by the actions of her driver and those of the occupants of following vehicles which remain unidentified.
That said, everyone accepts that these two were eyewitnesses to the immediate aftermath of whatever happened to our Princess.
Interesting revelation at 5m 02s in...
And, just to be clear, here is the transcript of their evidence to the Scott Baker inquest which found that Diana was unlawfully killed by the actions of her driver and those of the occupants of following vehicles which remain unidentified.
The great Conservative AV double-bluff mind game
The Conservative Party has the list of it's politicians who will be at the frontline of their campaign to oppose AV.
They are:
MPs and Conservative Party activists will join Mr Cameron and other 'No to AV' patrons, William Hague, Ken Clarke and Sayeeda Warsi, in campaigning against AV in the upcoming referendum.
The MPs announced today are Conor Burns MP; George Eustice MP; Sam Gyimah MP; Kwasi Kwarteng MP; Charlotte Leslie MP; Priti Patel MP; Chris Skidmore MP; Chris Philp and Maggie Throup.
Reeeeeee-wind....
Spearheading this campaign are "William Hague, Ken Clarke"..?
What... Mr. Double-Bluff Europhobeophile Hague?
Mr. Bilderberg Attending Europhile Ken Clarke?
What a conundrum.
Reminds me of that scene from the Vicar of Dibley. You know. "You know that stuff that they call 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter'..?"
You see, what they clearly want you to think is: 'Ahh! Ken Clarke the Bilderberger and William Flip-Flop-EU-Hating-EU-Worshipping Hague oppose AV..? It must be brilliant! I'll vote for AV then!'
Which makes me think that the correct choice is still to oppose AV; to oppose the thing that they're opposing and not end up doing what they want you to do which is the opposite of whatever they are saying.
Confused? Me too.
Don't worry. If you get too confused, you can always just write "No2EU" all over your referendum ballot paper. Or just stay at home and hope that they go away...
They are:
MPs and Conservative Party activists will join Mr Cameron and other 'No to AV' patrons, William Hague, Ken Clarke and Sayeeda Warsi, in campaigning against AV in the upcoming referendum.
The MPs announced today are Conor Burns MP; George Eustice MP; Sam Gyimah MP; Kwasi Kwarteng MP; Charlotte Leslie MP; Priti Patel MP; Chris Skidmore MP; Chris Philp and Maggie Throup.
Reeeeeee-wind....
Spearheading this campaign are "William Hague, Ken Clarke"..?
What... Mr. Double-Bluff Europhobeophile Hague?
Mr. Bilderberg Attending Europhile Ken Clarke?
What a conundrum.
Reminds me of that scene from the Vicar of Dibley. You know. "You know that stuff that they call 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter'..?"
You see, what they clearly want you to think is: 'Ahh! Ken Clarke the Bilderberger and William Flip-Flop-EU-Hating-EU-Worshipping Hague oppose AV..? It must be brilliant! I'll vote for AV then!'
Which makes me think that the correct choice is still to oppose AV; to oppose the thing that they're opposing and not end up doing what they want you to do which is the opposite of whatever they are saying.
Confused? Me too.
Don't worry. If you get too confused, you can always just write "No2EU" all over your referendum ballot paper. Or just stay at home and hope that they go away...
Go on then Brussels, direct tax us... I dare ya!
The TaxPayers' Alliance has just sent a newsletter out saying:
The TPA are directing people to a video and petition site.
We like the TaxPayers' Aliiance. Genuinely.
However, we say to Brussels - go on then... I dare you. I utterly, totally, donkey-double dare ya'.
The overwhelming majority of the British people dislike the European Union, resent being dicated to, and we're on the borders of rising up against our own politicians as the standards of our living drop.
So go on, tax us directly. Come out of the shadows, you cowards, and let the British people see how much you actually take off us for your Great Dictatorship.
A friendly dare, from the country that gave it's OWN politicians this:
We're already - as a nation - turning on our own very sleepy and dull local Town Halls.
So, go ahead Brussels. I suspect I know how the British people will react, and it does not involve this country remaining part of the European Union.
"Here in the UK we are already over-taxed. We've been strong critics of the rises in VAT and fuel duty, which have both pushed up the cost of living. One area we have, and will continue to, highlight that adds an unnecessary burden of tax on the UK is the EU. You may have seen Dr Lee Rotherham speaking about the cost of the EU. Now the EU would like to add to that burden, and plans to introduce direct taxes on financial transactions, electronic communications and CO2 emissions. Not only that, Brussels wants us to increase the VAT contributions that we already give over to the wasteful and unaccountable bureaucracy at the EU Commission. We think these plans are a disgrace and they would mark a huge turning point that would be difficult to reverse."
The TPA are directing people to a video and petition site.
We like the TaxPayers' Aliiance. Genuinely.
However, we say to Brussels - go on then... I dare you. I utterly, totally, donkey-double dare ya'.
The overwhelming majority of the British people dislike the European Union, resent being dicated to, and we're on the borders of rising up against our own politicians as the standards of our living drop.
So go on, tax us directly. Come out of the shadows, you cowards, and let the British people see how much you actually take off us for your Great Dictatorship.
A friendly dare, from the country that gave it's OWN politicians this:
We're already - as a nation - turning on our own very sleepy and dull local Town Halls.
So, go ahead Brussels. I suspect I know how the British people will react, and it does not involve this country remaining part of the European Union.
Support alternative media - help Edge Media /'Controversial TV', Sky Channel 200
Was pleased to see that Controversial TV is broadcasting again on Sky Channel 200.
This is a very important broadcaster offering alternative viewpoints from the mainstream media.
It had been off air for a long time, due to a funding crisis. It is very welcome back, and this blog hope it stays on air. Please consider helping their cause donating via the banner below, especially if you know their output.
This is a very important broadcaster offering alternative viewpoints from the mainstream media.
It had been off air for a long time, due to a funding crisis. It is very welcome back, and this blog hope it stays on air. Please consider helping their cause donating via the banner below, especially if you know their output.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
AV debate: Spectator article accuses the Electoral Reform Society
Ed Howker at The Spectator has a very interesting article that I'd like to point you in the direction of.
In instances such as this, we have learned not to comment.
However, The Spectator article begins:
"I have been on the trail of the ‘Yes To Fairer Votes’ (YTFV) campaign, attempting to discover the real source of their funding. What I found reveals a catalogue of undeclared donations, hidden money trails and one massive conflict of interest of such comical proportions that even Berlusconi would blush."
To read the rest, click HERE.
In instances such as this, we have learned not to comment.
However, The Spectator article begins:
"I have been on the trail of the ‘Yes To Fairer Votes’ (YTFV) campaign, attempting to discover the real source of their funding. What I found reveals a catalogue of undeclared donations, hidden money trails and one massive conflict of interest of such comical proportions that even Berlusconi would blush."
To read the rest, click HERE.
Sneaking in martial law for the students and trade unions, I see...
Martial Law UK seems to be nearing yet again.
The Daily Mail reports that: "SAS troops could be deployed on the streets alongside police as fears grow of a Mumbai-style terror attack on Britain, it emerged today."
We know this game now though, don't we?
What they mean is they've seen the social unrest, uprisings and disturbances across the globe and are still smarting from the student protests here.
So, they're going to have the armed forces on the streets of Britain.
But, don't panic! It's only for those awful terrorist rotters.
Just like all the rest of the "anti terror" activity. It really was intended for boz-eyed idiots who live in caves in the Third World, and not - oh no, never! - intended to harass, hound, prey upon and intimidate the local population. Oh no.
I'm amazed that they've found some spare SAS troops. I thought, since our surrender to Brussels, that we just supplied empty aircraft carriers to the French?
That we still have some troops is amazing.
In the United States, they have the Posse Comitatus Act which prevents the armed forces from taking on civil law enforcement roles.
But - like all criminal Governments of the modern era - what Government doesn't like the rules of, it just ignores.
Meanwhile, the Daily Express reports that Call Me Dave is angry at Brussels.
More faux anger, of course. This is about money - lots and lots and lots of it - that the EU has poured into tinpot dictators in the Middle East.
Dave moans: "The EU has given a vast amount of money to these countries. It hasn’t really insisted on proper conditions for this money. Far too much money has disappeared down a great big black hole."
A great big black hole known as the back pockets of globalist bankers and/or French and British arms dealers.
Never worry - the more weapons we sell to such countries, the more at risk we are from terrorists.
If there are any real terrorists.
Most terrorism is, as you know, staged false flag activity.
And is designed to engineer public opinion to accept infringements on our freedoms and liberties.
Such as having the SAS on the streets.
No doubt they will be asked to crack down on student and trade union protests - otherwise known to the elites as "white Al-Qaeda".
Am I getting too cynical for this blogging malarkey, do you think?
The Daily Mail reports that: "SAS troops could be deployed on the streets alongside police as fears grow of a Mumbai-style terror attack on Britain, it emerged today."
We know this game now though, don't we?
What they mean is they've seen the social unrest, uprisings and disturbances across the globe and are still smarting from the student protests here.
So, they're going to have the armed forces on the streets of Britain.
But, don't panic! It's only for those awful terrorist rotters.
Just like all the rest of the "anti terror" activity. It really was intended for boz-eyed idiots who live in caves in the Third World, and not - oh no, never! - intended to harass, hound, prey upon and intimidate the local population. Oh no.
I'm amazed that they've found some spare SAS troops. I thought, since our surrender to Brussels, that we just supplied empty aircraft carriers to the French?
That we still have some troops is amazing.
In the United States, they have the Posse Comitatus Act which prevents the armed forces from taking on civil law enforcement roles.
But - like all criminal Governments of the modern era - what Government doesn't like the rules of, it just ignores.
Meanwhile, the Daily Express reports that Call Me Dave is angry at Brussels.
More faux anger, of course. This is about money - lots and lots and lots of it - that the EU has poured into tinpot dictators in the Middle East.
Dave moans: "The EU has given a vast amount of money to these countries. It hasn’t really insisted on proper conditions for this money. Far too much money has disappeared down a great big black hole."
A great big black hole known as the back pockets of globalist bankers and/or French and British arms dealers.
Never worry - the more weapons we sell to such countries, the more at risk we are from terrorists.
If there are any real terrorists.
Most terrorism is, as you know, staged false flag activity.
And is designed to engineer public opinion to accept infringements on our freedoms and liberties.
Such as having the SAS on the streets.
No doubt they will be asked to crack down on student and trade union protests - otherwise known to the elites as "white Al-Qaeda".
Am I getting too cynical for this blogging malarkey, do you think?
(Jim) Corr Blimey! I agree with someone on politics!
Not often this happens, but - in a rare turn up for the books - here's someone with whom I agree entirely on matters of current affairs and politics. Step forward Jim Corr...
Credit for this find goes to our good friend The Final Redoubt.
And here is the film referred to by Jim Corr in the clip:
Credit for this find goes to our good friend The Final Redoubt.
And here is the film referred to by Jim Corr in the clip:
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Not Today's Prime Minister's Questions
Today's session of Prime Minister's Questions has been cancelled.
This is because of half-term, in which many Members of Parliament enjoy jollies either at the expense of the taxpayer through their illegally obtained, fraudulent expenses or through back handers that they have received from corporations, lobbyists, fake charities and so on.
Naturally, with something in the region of 80% of our laws being dictated to us by Brussels, Members of Parliament feel very hard done by and feel that their incredibly large number of holidays is entirely justified, considering that they still have to perform a whole 20% of their job. Such a large workload is clearly a Health & Safety matter.
Normal service will be resumed next week when the Big Cheeses of all parties return from receiving their instructions from the European Empire, the Bilderberg Group, Goldman Sachs and a few random tinpot dictators in the Third World somewhere.
Top of the agenda for the return of Parliament are the following items of national importance:
Monday am: Debate on whether MPs get paid enough
Monday pm: Motion on doubling the number of holidays MPs get (followed by)
Monday pm: Anti-Terrorism Bill. Home Office seeking approval for emergency legislation to lock people up for three hundred years without charge in order to protect MPs, following grave concern after one of them was written to by someone belonging to that terrorist organisation calling itself 'your constituency'.
Tuesday am: House suspended while MPs attend Westminster Hall for a caviar and champagne presentation from the European Empire on the glorious perks available to MPs who comply with every diktat and the added bonus prizes available to British politicians who, on the most number of occasions, can be heard in public calling British people who don't like global governance (EU branch) 'Little Englanders' or 'xenophobes'
Tuesday pm: Committee session, investigating a complaint against one MP who, it is alleged, committed the seriously criminal act of listening to a constituent and acting upon their concerns
Wednesday am: Debate on airport security. Emergency session following complaints someone who sounded and looked as though they might be White British was seen checking passports at a Passport Control desk at a UK airport arrivals terminal. This clearly breaches all laws against making White British people feel that they might be welcome in the United Kingdom and must be stamped on, forthwith.
Wednesday pm: Economy - vote on proposal to raise the lower rate of tax to 90% for those earning more than 22p, with the extra cash to be passed to globalist bankers who need an urgent bailout after all of those multi-billion pound bonuses they had to pay themselves, poor dears.
Thursday am: Constitutional Affairs Debate - That this House agrees that the death penalty be reintroduced should any of the great unwashed dare mention the Bill of Rights or Habeas Corpus.
Thursday pm: Orgy and big piss up in the House of Commons bar. Smoking allowed. The Expenses Office will be treating claims for viagra and prostitutes as legitimate.
Friday: We don't work Fridays. Not for £100,000 and a paltry few million being all we can scam in dodgy expense claims. What do you think we are? Slaves?
Note: The recently passed Bill to abolish the United Kingdom and to operate it as a protectorate county of Liechtenstein is expected to receive Royal Assent within the next few weeks. It should be noted that, while MPs will therefore no longer be required to work, they will still be entitled to their full pay, holiday allowances and glorious pensions.
This is because of half-term, in which many Members of Parliament enjoy jollies either at the expense of the taxpayer through their illegally obtained, fraudulent expenses or through back handers that they have received from corporations, lobbyists, fake charities and so on.
Naturally, with something in the region of 80% of our laws being dictated to us by Brussels, Members of Parliament feel very hard done by and feel that their incredibly large number of holidays is entirely justified, considering that they still have to perform a whole 20% of their job. Such a large workload is clearly a Health & Safety matter.
Normal service will be resumed next week when the Big Cheeses of all parties return from receiving their instructions from the European Empire, the Bilderberg Group, Goldman Sachs and a few random tinpot dictators in the Third World somewhere.
Top of the agenda for the return of Parliament are the following items of national importance:
Monday am: Debate on whether MPs get paid enough
Monday pm: Motion on doubling the number of holidays MPs get (followed by)
Monday pm: Anti-Terrorism Bill. Home Office seeking approval for emergency legislation to lock people up for three hundred years without charge in order to protect MPs, following grave concern after one of them was written to by someone belonging to that terrorist organisation calling itself 'your constituency'.
Tuesday am: House suspended while MPs attend Westminster Hall for a caviar and champagne presentation from the European Empire on the glorious perks available to MPs who comply with every diktat and the added bonus prizes available to British politicians who, on the most number of occasions, can be heard in public calling British people who don't like global governance (EU branch) 'Little Englanders' or 'xenophobes'
Tuesday pm: Committee session, investigating a complaint against one MP who, it is alleged, committed the seriously criminal act of listening to a constituent and acting upon their concerns
Wednesday am: Debate on airport security. Emergency session following complaints someone who sounded and looked as though they might be White British was seen checking passports at a Passport Control desk at a UK airport arrivals terminal. This clearly breaches all laws against making White British people feel that they might be welcome in the United Kingdom and must be stamped on, forthwith.
Wednesday pm: Economy - vote on proposal to raise the lower rate of tax to 90% for those earning more than 22p, with the extra cash to be passed to globalist bankers who need an urgent bailout after all of those multi-billion pound bonuses they had to pay themselves, poor dears.
Thursday am: Constitutional Affairs Debate - That this House agrees that the death penalty be reintroduced should any of the great unwashed dare mention the Bill of Rights or Habeas Corpus.
Thursday pm: Orgy and big piss up in the House of Commons bar. Smoking allowed. The Expenses Office will be treating claims for viagra and prostitutes as legitimate.
Friday: We don't work Fridays. Not for £100,000 and a paltry few million being all we can scam in dodgy expense claims. What do you think we are? Slaves?
Note: The recently passed Bill to abolish the United Kingdom and to operate it as a protectorate county of Liechtenstein is expected to receive Royal Assent within the next few weeks. It should be noted that, while MPs will therefore no longer be required to work, they will still be entitled to their full pay, holiday allowances and glorious pensions.
A salute to Harry Beckhough, a real British hero
In a country awash with the corrupt, we thought we would take a moment to introduce you to a real patriot, a real national hero; a thoroughly clued up man who knows what is going on and - if you will listen - will enlighten you.
Harry, if you were to read this, you are England. We salute you, sir.
See also:
UKK41 and Ironies Too
Harry, if you were to read this, you are England. We salute you, sir.
My loving people,
We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood even, in the dust.
I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you in the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
- Queen Elizabeth I
See also:
UKK41 and Ironies Too
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
CAAT criticises David Cameron, arms dealer
I know that Britain needs to make and export things, including ghastly weapons, but it appears that we've learned nothing from the (convenient to some) death of Diana:
Diana, I hear you ask? What has she got to do with this?
At the time of her death, she planned to expose those who were - apparently in her words - profiting out of misery.
How apt.
See also:
The Guardian - David Cameron hits out at critics of Britain's arms trade
Diana, I hear you ask? What has she got to do with this?
At the time of her death, she planned to expose those who were - apparently in her words - profiting out of misery.
How apt.
See also:
The Guardian - David Cameron hits out at critics of Britain's arms trade
3.2 million: The number of immigrant voters the Labour Party imported to it's cause
Well, it was a matter of public record that the Labour Party deliberately had an open door immigration policy for the purpose of gerrymandering future elections.
Today, we find out the utterly disgusting extent that they took it to.
3.2 million people.
Or, as the Daily Mail puts it: "Labour's open-door immigration policy led to the largest population explosion since the Saxon invasion more than 1,000 years ago."
Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch calls it: "Labour’s great betrayal."
The Sun points out that, under Labour: "Three-quarters of all new jobs went to foreigners."
So, no "British jobs for British workers" then, Gordon.
The Daily Express tells us that: "Research by one of the country’s leading demographers has concluded that if immigration continues at its present level the “white British” may become a minority in the UK by the late 2060s."
But let's not discuss it. Let's not raise a single concern. Let's all keep very quiet, lest we fall foul of what Sir Andrew Green calls: "...the Left’s deliberate tactic of stifling reasoned debate with accusations of racism."
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph tells us that: "The cost of next month’s national census is expected to reach almost £500 million as 30,000 officials are hired to ensure immigrants who do not speak English take part in the compulsory population count."
What can one say? Adjectives seem so pointless in the face of such evidence.
Labour have their three million new voters. Which more than makes up for the number of their voters that they alienated with their deliberate mass immigration policy and drove into the arms of the BNP as a result.
So the British people have a patriotic duty to have babies.
Or we could all write a nice letter to the English Defence League and see if we can't get a van load of them to go brick up the Channel Tunnel.
That, or we all go and resettle in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Which would be like being an asylum seeker in your own country, really.
Can't blame the immigrants. Who wouldn't want the land of milk and honey - just turn up, promise to vote Labour, and get free healthcare, free education for schoolkids, a council home, jobs that the locals aren't offered, as many mosques as you could possibly need, supermarkets selling unmarked halal meat, the security net of benefits from a pot that you've never had to contribute to, political correctness rules to stop the locals saying a word in complaint, no need to learn the local language as translators are provided and paid for...
...ruddy hell.
The Labour Party. Gosh, how I hate them.
See also:
Daily Mail Editorial - Migrants, Labour and democratic vandalism
Sir Andrew Green - How Labour let in 3 million immigrants, in defiance of the overwhelming wishes of the British people
Today, we find out the utterly disgusting extent that they took it to.
3.2 million people.
Or, as the Daily Mail puts it: "Labour's open-door immigration policy led to the largest population explosion since the Saxon invasion more than 1,000 years ago."
Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch calls it: "Labour’s great betrayal."
The Sun points out that, under Labour: "Three-quarters of all new jobs went to foreigners."
So, no "British jobs for British workers" then, Gordon.
The Daily Express tells us that: "Research by one of the country’s leading demographers has concluded that if immigration continues at its present level the “white British” may become a minority in the UK by the late 2060s."
But let's not discuss it. Let's not raise a single concern. Let's all keep very quiet, lest we fall foul of what Sir Andrew Green calls: "...the Left’s deliberate tactic of stifling reasoned debate with accusations of racism."
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph tells us that: "The cost of next month’s national census is expected to reach almost £500 million as 30,000 officials are hired to ensure immigrants who do not speak English take part in the compulsory population count."
What can one say? Adjectives seem so pointless in the face of such evidence.
Labour have their three million new voters. Which more than makes up for the number of their voters that they alienated with their deliberate mass immigration policy and drove into the arms of the BNP as a result.
So the British people have a patriotic duty to have babies.
Or we could all write a nice letter to the English Defence League and see if we can't get a van load of them to go brick up the Channel Tunnel.
That, or we all go and resettle in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Which would be like being an asylum seeker in your own country, really.
Can't blame the immigrants. Who wouldn't want the land of milk and honey - just turn up, promise to vote Labour, and get free healthcare, free education for schoolkids, a council home, jobs that the locals aren't offered, as many mosques as you could possibly need, supermarkets selling unmarked halal meat, the security net of benefits from a pot that you've never had to contribute to, political correctness rules to stop the locals saying a word in complaint, no need to learn the local language as translators are provided and paid for...
...ruddy hell.
The Labour Party. Gosh, how I hate them.
See also:
Daily Mail Editorial - Migrants, Labour and democratic vandalism
Sir Andrew Green - How Labour let in 3 million immigrants, in defiance of the overwhelming wishes of the British people
Monday, 21 February 2011
Clegg confesses: AV will damage the election chances of small parties
Well, well, well... that didn't take long, did it?
Shall I just offer to run UKIP?
I'll extended the same offer to the No2AV campaign too, if they like.
This from the Daily Express on a Q&A with Nick Clegg:
Mr Clegg was asked a range of questions during the hour-long session, ranging from tuition fees and the benefits of AV to helping the unemployed get back to work.
Commenting on AV, he said it would disadvantage extremist parties such as the BNP.
He said: "The BNP is campaigning against AV as they realise it is far more difficult for them to get a foothold in Westminster."
And the same will go for UKIP. And the Green Party. And the English Democrats. And every other small party.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/230444/Clegg-a-victim-of-scaremongering-/
Told you it was a LibLabCon. Now Nick Clegg has virtually admitted it.
Now will you believe me?
Shall I just offer to run UKIP?
I'll extended the same offer to the No2AV campaign too, if they like.
This from the Daily Express on a Q&A with Nick Clegg:
Mr Clegg was asked a range of questions during the hour-long session, ranging from tuition fees and the benefits of AV to helping the unemployed get back to work.
Commenting on AV, he said it would disadvantage extremist parties such as the BNP.
He said: "The BNP is campaigning against AV as they realise it is far more difficult for them to get a foothold in Westminster."
And the same will go for UKIP. And the Green Party. And the English Democrats. And every other small party.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/230444/Clegg-a-victim-of-scaremongering-/
Told you it was a LibLabCon. Now Nick Clegg has virtually admitted it.
Now will you believe me?
Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations blamed on global TV for Middle East & North African unrest
Bloody hell! Well done that man! Well done Russia Today!
The Daily Mail has a graphic which helps those with little or patchy geography knowledge see easily what is going on. Remember when you look at it to add Morocco to the list of places with unrest, protests or disruption.
Our friend Alex Jones had this to say at the weekend:
And here's Max Keiser telling the EU to "shut up!" and keep their noses out:
'No' to Clarke and Clegg's phony "Bill of Rights" con, too!
The following is doing the rounds by email. I would like to attribute the original author, but there isn't an original author on the email circulating. If it's yours, get in touch.
We will not accept a Bilderberg attendee and a Europhile Quisling joining forces and foisting their corrupted version of a 'Bill of Rights' upon us.
We have a Bill of Rights already. Get lost, Clarke and Clegg.
The Daily Mail tells us that: "A senior Law Lord warned today of a conflict between the European Convention on Human Rights and Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed British Bill of Rights."
Newsflash! This blog has been saying that everything EU is already in conflict with our EXISTING Bill of Rights, part of our constitution and because of that - and the treason laws - everything EU is null and void in this country already! And anyone who has ever signed up to anything EU should be prosecuted under the Bill of Rights and/or the treason laws.
Anyway, this blog wholeheartedly endorses the following. Click the link at the foot of the extract to read the original in it's entirety.
Read the rest of this excellent article on IanPJ on Politics blog HERE.
See also:
UKIP - One Euro law back on the EU agenda (with video)
[Addendum: Thanks to UKK41, we can now attribute the post extract below to Ian PJ on Politics. And you thought us bloggers didn't talk to each other? Ahh, but we do. Some of us even get on!]
We will not accept a Bilderberg attendee and a Europhile Quisling joining forces and foisting their corrupted version of a 'Bill of Rights' upon us.
We have a Bill of Rights already. Get lost, Clarke and Clegg.
The Daily Mail tells us that: "A senior Law Lord warned today of a conflict between the European Convention on Human Rights and Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed British Bill of Rights."
Newsflash! This blog has been saying that everything EU is already in conflict with our EXISTING Bill of Rights, part of our constitution and because of that - and the treason laws - everything EU is null and void in this country already! And anyone who has ever signed up to anything EU should be prosecuted under the Bill of Rights and/or the treason laws.
Anyway, this blog wholeheartedly endorses the following. Click the link at the foot of the extract to read the original in it's entirety.
ECHR & British Bill of Rights – a smokescreen
The British Government, as with all British Governments since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, have had to ponder on the big question of how to enable ever closer union when the UK is a Common Law state.
They have all looked at how to bury our Common Law in favour of the EU system of Corpus Juris, and until now none have tackled the problem head on.
During the blitz of legislation enacted during the Blair/Brown regimes, the majority of that legislation has simply ignored the rule of law and imposed Corpus Juris based statutes through the system. Strictly speaking much of that legislation is not lawful.
We know exactly where they want to be at the end of this exercise. Corpus Juris with Common Law buried.
PROBLEM
In order to do that they first have to create a problem. The problems they have chosen are the ECHR rulings on Prisoners Votes and Review of the Sex Offenders Register.
They know that both issues are abhorrent to the British Public, so it will be easy to whip up public support ‘for the Government to do something’.
SOLUTION
Now we come to the solution. A Bill of Rights.
That is where the Government wanted to be in the first place, but it needed to engineer enough public support to push it through.
Read the rest of this excellent article on IanPJ on Politics blog HERE.
See also:
UKIP - One Euro law back on the EU agenda (with video)
The Big Society (or, if you're reading subtitles, 'The Dave Deception')
David Cameron has written for the Daily Telegraph today, setting out his vision for the 'Big Society'.
Those who attempt to read it might well be excused for coming away from the article none the wiser, for it is - if you'll excuse the phrase - pure bollock speak.
There's only one sentence that appears to make any sense in and amongst the complete balls passing itself off as meaningful English. This one:
"...public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service."
Or, in subtitles, privatisation and/or competitive tendering.
Is that about it, Dave? Did I get the gist?
Naturally, privatisation and competitive tendering have long been associated (not) with:
"...the breakdown in our society: the family breakdown and community breakdown that has done so much damage to people's lives..."
Unless, of course, you're talking about the way privatised companies have seen their profits sky rocket whilst none of us can afford anything, any more.
Don't get me wrong - I have not suddenly turned into a rampant socialist.
But it would appear to me that Jeremy Clarkson (hat tip: Witterings from Witney) has more of a clue about how to use the notion of community co-operation in order to improve and retain public services and add in community interaction than Dave has managed to outline in his 'Big Society' vision.
Let's look at that sentence again:
"...public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service."
And make themselves a shitload of money. Bet it doesn't result in lower taxes, better services, or improvement in the values of society at all.
All it will result in is the further corporate takeover of Britain by the corporatist, global elite.
'The Big Society'..?
'The Dave Deception', more like.
And with Parliament now crawling with Bilderberg Group members, it's not difficult to see where it's all heading.
Addendum: Scary, when I find myself on the same side and reaching the same conclusions as The Guardian and the trade unions.
Those who attempt to read it might well be excused for coming away from the article none the wiser, for it is - if you'll excuse the phrase - pure bollock speak.
There's only one sentence that appears to make any sense in and amongst the complete balls passing itself off as meaningful English. This one:
"...public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service."
Or, in subtitles, privatisation and/or competitive tendering.
Is that about it, Dave? Did I get the gist?
Naturally, privatisation and competitive tendering have long been associated (not) with:
"...the breakdown in our society: the family breakdown and community breakdown that has done so much damage to people's lives..."
Unless, of course, you're talking about the way privatised companies have seen their profits sky rocket whilst none of us can afford anything, any more.
Don't get me wrong - I have not suddenly turned into a rampant socialist.
But it would appear to me that Jeremy Clarkson (hat tip: Witterings from Witney) has more of a clue about how to use the notion of community co-operation in order to improve and retain public services and add in community interaction than Dave has managed to outline in his 'Big Society' vision.
Let's look at that sentence again:
"...public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service."
And make themselves a shitload of money. Bet it doesn't result in lower taxes, better services, or improvement in the values of society at all.
All it will result in is the further corporate takeover of Britain by the corporatist, global elite.
'The Big Society'..?
'The Dave Deception', more like.
And with Parliament now crawling with Bilderberg Group members, it's not difficult to see where it's all heading.
Addendum: Scary, when I find myself on the same side and reaching the same conclusions as The Guardian and the trade unions.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Austerity Britain: Chancellor vs. Shadow Chancellor is actually... Bilderberg vs. Bilderberg (official)
As one of the few political blogs which will dare mention the Bilderberg Group, we thought we'd pose a little question...
Leaving aside Cabinet member Ken Clarke (Bilderberg)...
When there is a debate about the state of Britain's economy and we see the politicians - in this case George Osborne and Ed Balls - trading insults, how real or how stage managed is the said debate?
We thought we might help you form a better opinion if we were to point out that BOTH George Osborne and Ed Balls are Bilderberg attendees.
We're using that hotbed of tin-foil hat conspiracy "theory" resources known as...
...the Daily Telegraph.
Oh, and: "...a Treasury spokesman said Mr Balls had attended "in his capacity as a minister" and confirmed that all expenses had been met from public funds."
So, where are the minutes of the meeting? Surely, as taxpayers, we're entitled?
Get your 'austerity Britain' and 'all in this together' processes around that one.
We're all politicians in the f***ing Bilderberg Group together, more like.
Leaving aside Cabinet member Ken Clarke (Bilderberg)...
When there is a debate about the state of Britain's economy and we see the politicians - in this case George Osborne and Ed Balls - trading insults, how real or how stage managed is the said debate?
We thought we might help you form a better opinion if we were to point out that BOTH George Osborne and Ed Balls are Bilderberg attendees.
We're using that hotbed of tin-foil hat conspiracy "theory" resources known as...
...the Daily Telegraph.
Oh, and: "...a Treasury spokesman said Mr Balls had attended "in his capacity as a minister" and confirmed that all expenses had been met from public funds."
So, where are the minutes of the meeting? Surely, as taxpayers, we're entitled?
Get your 'austerity Britain' and 'all in this together' processes around that one.
We're all politicians in the f***ing Bilderberg Group together, more like.
Fair Vote Canada: "AV is absolutely inappropriate for parliamentary elections"
As the debate about AV doesn't particularly rage in the UK (because only Nick Clegg is interested), we went looking for an impartial view from that offered by either the 'Yes' or 'No' camps.
We found the website of Fair Vote Canada... and it appears that we're vindicated entirely in damming AV.
(It also appears that they patronise voters far less than either the British 'Yes' or 'No' campaigns, but that's a different story).
In a special report on AV prepared in August 2009 (long before Clegg and his ideas came along), Fair Vote Canada wrote: "AV is absolutely inappropriate for parliamentary elections where the objective is to give equal representation to all voters."
In a sub-section which answers suggestions that AV is a stepping stone towards real fair votes (Proportional Representation), Fair Vote Canada write:
As for UKIP:
The full Fair Vote Canada assessment of AV can be found in pdf format HERE.
Want fairer votes?
Then say 'No 2 AV'.
We found the website of Fair Vote Canada... and it appears that we're vindicated entirely in damming AV.
(It also appears that they patronise voters far less than either the British 'Yes' or 'No' campaigns, but that's a different story).
In a special report on AV prepared in August 2009 (long before Clegg and his ideas came along), Fair Vote Canada wrote: "AV is absolutely inappropriate for parliamentary elections where the objective is to give equal representation to all voters."
In a sub-section which answers suggestions that AV is a stepping stone towards real fair votes (Proportional Representation), Fair Vote Canada write:
Is switching from our current voting system to AV for parliamentary elections likely to be a step toward fair voting in the foreseeable future?
No. Societies rarely change their voting systems for parliamentary, legislature or council elections. When those scarce opportunities arise by popular demand, proposals for cosmetic change are diversionary and may make the legislatures even less representative. Some established politicians are only too willing to misdirect public opinion in the name of reform. Democrats must be constant in the demand for fair democratic representation for every citizen and nothing less.
As for UKIP:
Would AV help small parties get established and win seats?
Not at all. AV would make it easy for voters to give smaller parties their first choice vote and their second choice to a larger party with a better chance of winning a seat. It is formalized strategic voting. But actual AV election results show that supporters of small parties are no more likely to gain representation with AV than with the current system.
AV exaggerates the tendency of the current system to direct all voters into a choice between two big-tent political parties.
The full Fair Vote Canada assessment of AV can be found in pdf format HERE.
Want fairer votes?
Then say 'No 2 AV'.
Sunday Paper Review: 20th February 2011
The Sunday Telegraph has a very powerful report on the unrest in Libya - and it does make for disturbing reading. They report that: "Snipers shot protesters, artillery and helicopter gunships were used against crowds of demonstrators, and thugs armed with hammers and swords attacked families in their homes as the Libyan regime sought to crush the uprising."
The Libyan crisis follows a curious number of such situations across the Middle East and northern Africa of late.
Absolutely fascinating revelation in The Observer which everyone should have a read of - particularly those of you with concerns over privacy and civil liberties.
The newspaper reports that: "People are being urged to boycott next month's UK's census because the US arms manufacturer responsible for Trident [Lockhead Martin] is involved in gathering the information."
The concern, according to the report, is that every single one of us could end up in a giant U.S. database as the company "is involved in surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI."
Just a shame that the principal messenger of this warning is a campaign group that - for wider political reasons than their primary message - we find it very difficult to associate ourselves with, indeed.
One group we're very comfortable with, of course, is UKIP. Now, UKIP were rather upset recently by Prince Charles' decision to go to the European Union and prattle on about his most recent conversation with a lettuce (or something).
The Mail on Sunday is presenting UKIP with an open goal for revenge over his controversial decision.
It reports that: "Ministers have ordered an information blackout on the massive [European Union] farming subsidies paid to the Queen, Prince Charles and dozens of other wealthy landowners."
Far be it from me to second guess what people might think, but some might say that this might explain little things like giving Royal Assent to the Lisbon Treaty...
That, and links to Germans, of course.
Did we mention that Princess Diana's family bloodline goes back into hundreds and hundreds of years of British history? As British - English - as one could ever wish.
Talking of the European Union, if one needs a demonstration of why it will never work - no matter what the poltical elite demand - then one could look no further than... no, not Belgium, Nigel... but Spain.
The Sunday Express reports on how tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Bilbao demanding legal recognition for the Basque separatist party Sortu which is demanding independence for the Basque region.
First, there was'man made global warming' 'climate change'. And now... plastic carrier bags!
In a surprising turn up for the books (or is it?), the Independent on Sunday reports that: "Unpublished government research suggests the plastic carrier bag may not be an eco-villain after all, but [...] ordinary high-density polythene (HDPE) bags are actually greener than supposedly low-impact choices."
We did look in the report to find out if there was any clue as to which numpties were to blame for having told us the opposite for all these years, but to no avail. We know where we wanted to look first, anyway.
In a similar vein, it's quickly back to The Observer where we learn that all the 'research' demonstrating that the nightclub drug ecstasy damages the brain is a load of crap, too. Surprise!
Do you think we can get round to showing the bullshit of passive smoking research soon too, so that us smokers can go back into the pubs and save them all from closing down?
The Sunday People is one of a number of newspapers reporting on the following - a row over Jamie Oliver's new TV programme that has been asking teenage schoolboys to wank into a test tube.
Apparently, it is not yet another Nazi-esque method devised by the Labour Party for taking out a library book or getting a school dinner, but apparently part of a (rather crazy) way of trying to get youngsters engaged with science.
Not that many 16-18 year old boys need much encouragement to have a five fingered shuffle, I shouldn't have thought. We were all that age once. Oh, to be that young (and capable) again...
The Sunday Mirror goes in for lots of 'Tory Toff' bashing this week - a different kind of 'bashing' from that which Jamie Oliver's programme wants from schoolboys.
But it also reports on anger in Scotland at plans to put the clocks forward by two hours and move the entire UK to double British Summer Time.
Double British Summer Time... otherwise known as Central European Summer Time, perhaps? Oh bugger... did I give that game of "don't mention the EU" away?
Oh well.
Would sir care for a test tube of semen, by way of an apology?
And finally... after all that wanking, the Mail on Sunday has some lovely pictures of the ever beautiful Kylie Minogue from her 'Aphrodite' tour.
Oh dear. Test tube, sir?
The Libyan crisis follows a curious number of such situations across the Middle East and northern Africa of late.
Absolutely fascinating revelation in The Observer which everyone should have a read of - particularly those of you with concerns over privacy and civil liberties.
The newspaper reports that: "People are being urged to boycott next month's UK's census because the US arms manufacturer responsible for Trident [Lockhead Martin] is involved in gathering the information."
The concern, according to the report, is that every single one of us could end up in a giant U.S. database as the company "is involved in surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI."
Just a shame that the principal messenger of this warning is a campaign group that - for wider political reasons than their primary message - we find it very difficult to associate ourselves with, indeed.
One group we're very comfortable with, of course, is UKIP. Now, UKIP were rather upset recently by Prince Charles' decision to go to the European Union and prattle on about his most recent conversation with a lettuce (or something).
The Mail on Sunday is presenting UKIP with an open goal for revenge over his controversial decision.
It reports that: "Ministers have ordered an information blackout on the massive [European Union] farming subsidies paid to the Queen, Prince Charles and dozens of other wealthy landowners."
Far be it from me to second guess what people might think, but some might say that this might explain little things like giving Royal Assent to the Lisbon Treaty...
That, and links to Germans, of course.
Did we mention that Princess Diana's family bloodline goes back into hundreds and hundreds of years of British history? As British - English - as one could ever wish.
Talking of the European Union, if one needs a demonstration of why it will never work - no matter what the poltical elite demand - then one could look no further than... no, not Belgium, Nigel... but Spain.
The Sunday Express reports on how tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Bilbao demanding legal recognition for the Basque separatist party Sortu which is demanding independence for the Basque region.
First, there was
In a surprising turn up for the books (or is it?), the Independent on Sunday reports that: "Unpublished government research suggests the plastic carrier bag may not be an eco-villain after all, but [...] ordinary high-density polythene (HDPE) bags are actually greener than supposedly low-impact choices."
We did look in the report to find out if there was any clue as to which numpties were to blame for having told us the opposite for all these years, but to no avail. We know where we wanted to look first, anyway.
In a similar vein, it's quickly back to The Observer where we learn that all the 'research' demonstrating that the nightclub drug ecstasy damages the brain is a load of crap, too. Surprise!
Do you think we can get round to showing the bullshit of passive smoking research soon too, so that us smokers can go back into the pubs and save them all from closing down?
The Sunday People is one of a number of newspapers reporting on the following - a row over Jamie Oliver's new TV programme that has been asking teenage schoolboys to wank into a test tube.
Apparently, it is not yet another Nazi-esque method devised by the Labour Party for taking out a library book or getting a school dinner, but apparently part of a (rather crazy) way of trying to get youngsters engaged with science.
Not that many 16-18 year old boys need much encouragement to have a five fingered shuffle, I shouldn't have thought. We were all that age once. Oh, to be that young (and capable) again...
The Sunday Mirror goes in for lots of 'Tory Toff' bashing this week - a different kind of 'bashing' from that which Jamie Oliver's programme wants from schoolboys.
But it also reports on anger in Scotland at plans to put the clocks forward by two hours and move the entire UK to double British Summer Time.
Double British Summer Time... otherwise known as Central European Summer Time, perhaps? Oh bugger... did I give that game of "don't mention the EU" away?
Oh well.
Would sir care for a test tube of semen, by way of an apology?
And finally... after all that wanking, the Mail on Sunday has some lovely pictures of the ever beautiful Kylie Minogue from her 'Aphrodite' tour.
Oh dear. Test tube, sir?
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Diana: Yes, Mr. Cameron, we approve wholeheartedly
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has followed this blog's lead... by publicly praising the humanitarian work and achievements of Diana, Princess of Wales.
A report in the Daily Express highlights the PM's warm words for 'the People's Princess' during a Downing Street reception for the Diana Award - of which, he now becomes patron.
He told those attending: "The Diana Award is a wonderful way to leave a living legacy to the late Princess and to recognise our country's talented and inspirational young people who volunteer, work and campaign for the benefit of others. [...] If you think about what she achieved, she wasn't somebody who handed out lots of money. She didn't have money like a Government minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Prime Minister. But she had huge influence because of what she spoke about and what she cared about."
Awesome!
Keep on like that, Mr. Cameron...
Now, if you could kindly brick over that memorial sewage duct at Hyde Park and build a huge, 'D' shaped eternal flame on The Mall (or in front of Kensington Palace) as a proper national monument to Diana... well, I might even be tempted to vote for you.
Wonder how the marriage wrecker is getting on with flogging biscuits on The Archers?
Need we say more?
One single handedly destigmatises HIV/AIDS and gets a ban on anti-personnel landmines (while persuading everyone, everywhere, that's it's okay to express your thoughts and feelings, your hopes and dreams) all within the space of a short, 36 year and one month life...
...the other does a nice line in custard creams.
Pah!
A report in the Daily Express highlights the PM's warm words for 'the People's Princess' during a Downing Street reception for the Diana Award - of which, he now becomes patron.
He told those attending: "The Diana Award is a wonderful way to leave a living legacy to the late Princess and to recognise our country's talented and inspirational young people who volunteer, work and campaign for the benefit of others. [...] If you think about what she achieved, she wasn't somebody who handed out lots of money. She didn't have money like a Government minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Prime Minister. But she had huge influence because of what she spoke about and what she cared about."
Awesome!
Keep on like that, Mr. Cameron...
Now, if you could kindly brick over that memorial sewage duct at Hyde Park and build a huge, 'D' shaped eternal flame on The Mall (or in front of Kensington Palace) as a proper national monument to Diana... well, I might even be tempted to vote for you.
Wonder how the marriage wrecker is getting on with flogging biscuits on The Archers?
Need we say more?
One single handedly destigmatises HIV/AIDS and gets a ban on anti-personnel landmines (while persuading everyone, everywhere, that's it's okay to express your thoughts and feelings, your hopes and dreams) all within the space of a short, 36 year and one month life...
...the other does a nice line in custard creams.
Pah!
Friday, 18 February 2011
We would welcome 'fairer votes'... but we say 'No2AV'
Some time back, this blog said that we would use the electoral reform referendum for a poll of our own and would encourage people to deliberately spoil their ballot paper by writing what they wanted to happen regarding the EU - namely, writing 'No2EU' in their ballot forms.
Today, we back peddle on that one... and we will instead be encouraging our readers to vote 'No' to AV.
Why so?
All of the anecdotal evidence that we have seen appears to suggest that the only people in favour of AV - described by someone I forget as "a horrid little compromise" - are Liberal Democrats and people who have some sympathies with the Lib Dem message, pre-Government.
Let's take one of the key arguments that they are using - that, somehow, AV is - in some way - going to give us "fairer votes".
The argument does not stand.
There are many ways of arguing against this, but the key point - for me - is that the end result will not reflect the political votes of the British public.
Let's take two parties - UKIP and the Green Party.
Opinion polls show that UKIP are on around 4% nationally, the Green Party on about 1%.
That would mean, under a reduced size House of Commons, that UKIP should be looking to get 24 MPs with the Green Party hoping to get 6 MPs.
Would AV deliver that?
What we do not know is to what extent a different voting system might encourage people to vote with their heart and passion rather than casting a tactical, calculated vote for the least worst.
Indeed, under the London (BNP) and European Union elections (UKIP), we find that people might vote differently under a system that is not FPTP.
But neither the London or European Union elections use AV.
So, how people would vote under AV is not a confirmed science.
What we do know is that opinion poll companies ask a very specific question.
They do not ask the public whether they are voting through belief or because they want to keep the red/blue/yellow team out.
They ask: "If there was a General Election tomorrow, which party would you be most likely to vote for?" - or similar.
So, I've popped along to the YouGov website and looked at the most recent polling data.
The headline figures are these:
Con 36
Lab 43
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Respect 0
Other 1
Now, under AV, if nobody gets 50%, the votes of the lowest placed candidate get redistributed to their second choice - and so on.
Let's take the last placed Respect out of our equation. Their 0% is unlikely to be a big swing figure, but we'll give them 1% anyway - this balances out the rounding of percentages.
So, let's give Respect's 1% to it's natural second choice home - the Labour Party, I contend.
Our new figures are:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Other 1
We still have no-one on 50%, and our lowest scorers are now a vague 'Other'. Let's suppose that they are English Democrats and the Monster Raving Loony Party.
We'll redistribute the English Democrats to UKIP, and redistribute the Monster Raving Loony votes to their natural home - the Liberal Democrats.
Our table now looks like this:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 10.5
UKIP 4.5
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
With still no-one on 50%, let's redistribute again. Let's give the Green Party vote share to the pre-election Liberal Democrats - let's give them the entire lot. Our new table now looks this way:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 4.5
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
With still no-one making 50%, we redistribute yet again. So, let's divide the BNP votes between UKIP and the Labour Party. Here's our new vote table:
Con 36
Lab 45
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 5.5
SNP / PCY 2
Still no candidate with 50%. Let's carve up the Scottish and Welsh nationalist vote... and let's give the entire lot to Labour. Here's the new table:
Con 36
Lab 47
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 5.5
Still nobody has 50%. Let's carve them up again. Let's redistribute UKIP's votes and give the entire lot to the Conservative Party:
Con 41.5
Lab 47
Lib Dem 11.5
And still nobody has 50% of the vote. Let's redistribute the Lib Dem vote equally between Labour and the Conservatives:
Con 47.25
Lab 52.75
So, Labour get through the 50% milestone, Labour take this seat.
...but hang on. What happened to those BNP voters? What happened to the UKIP voters? What happened to the Green Party voters?? And what happened to the Lib Dem voters? They are still being represented by a Labour MP in this scenario.
So, where will the fairer votes be?
We had a system for fairer votes. It was the very first table produced, from YouGov. Here it is again:
Con 36
Lab 43
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Respect 0
Other 1
Under proportional representation - the truly fair vote system - all of the parties in a reduced House of Commons would be represented (apart from the Respect party, but how do we give them 0% of an MP?).
Under proportional representation in a reduced House of Commons, a party would need 301 seats to form a majority Government.
Here's what they would have, remembering why we're using these figures:
Con 216 seats
Lab 258 seats
Lib Dem 60 seats
UKIP 24 seats
SNP / PCY 12 seats
BNP 12 seats
Green 6 seats
Respect 0
Other 6 seats
Even with the six seats we cannot allocate due to having rounded percentages at the outset, the outcome is clear - a hung Parliament, a coalition would have to be formed, and compromises would have to be found between election manifestos and policies enacted in Government.
If we're going to truly argue for fairer votes, then proportional representation is the system to use.
Some - those in the 'Yes' to AV camp - would have you believe that AV is a stepping stone to full proportional representation in the future. Bullshit.
Question... why not just offer it now?
As it is not being offered, any argument about fairer votes says that it will only be "fairer" to those who gain from the new system.
I cannot see UKIP, for example, gaining from AV. A party that comes fourth with a 4% or 5% vote share is unlikely to take 24 seats under AV (as it should under a fair system), and would rely - as the Green Party did in Brighton - on concentrated local campaigns to get any representation at all.
So, my view is that AV is just a great LibLabCon which is presenting itself as 'fairer' but is nothing of the sort.
The outcome of an AV election, in my view, will be no different than we have today - with the Liberal Democrats still be able to make cosy little, grubby little deals and get themselves into Government, despite only getting one in ten people to vote for them.
Proportional representation is the truly 'fairer' vote system, but the electorate may never know what they are going to get, irrespective of manifestos or largest parties (remember Gordon Brown gripping the Downing Street door frame after he'd lost?) due to the need for coalitions to be formed - probably.
In conclusion, this blog's position is this:
We would welcome fairer votes, but we're saying NO2AV and no to Nick Clegg who is the only person who has (belatedly) ever asked for it.
See also:
Daily Mail Editorial - Shabby deals and a threat to democracy
Today, we back peddle on that one... and we will instead be encouraging our readers to vote 'No' to AV.
Why so?
All of the anecdotal evidence that we have seen appears to suggest that the only people in favour of AV - described by someone I forget as "a horrid little compromise" - are Liberal Democrats and people who have some sympathies with the Lib Dem message, pre-Government.
Let's take one of the key arguments that they are using - that, somehow, AV is - in some way - going to give us "fairer votes".
The argument does not stand.
There are many ways of arguing against this, but the key point - for me - is that the end result will not reflect the political votes of the British public.
Let's take two parties - UKIP and the Green Party.
Opinion polls show that UKIP are on around 4% nationally, the Green Party on about 1%.
That would mean, under a reduced size House of Commons, that UKIP should be looking to get 24 MPs with the Green Party hoping to get 6 MPs.
Would AV deliver that?
What we do not know is to what extent a different voting system might encourage people to vote with their heart and passion rather than casting a tactical, calculated vote for the least worst.
Indeed, under the London (BNP) and European Union elections (UKIP), we find that people might vote differently under a system that is not FPTP.
But neither the London or European Union elections use AV.
So, how people would vote under AV is not a confirmed science.
What we do know is that opinion poll companies ask a very specific question.
They do not ask the public whether they are voting through belief or because they want to keep the red/blue/yellow team out.
They ask: "If there was a General Election tomorrow, which party would you be most likely to vote for?" - or similar.
So, I've popped along to the YouGov website and looked at the most recent polling data.
The headline figures are these:
Con 36
Lab 43
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Respect 0
Other 1
Now, under AV, if nobody gets 50%, the votes of the lowest placed candidate get redistributed to their second choice - and so on.
Let's take the last placed Respect out of our equation. Their 0% is unlikely to be a big swing figure, but we'll give them 1% anyway - this balances out the rounding of percentages.
So, let's give Respect's 1% to it's natural second choice home - the Labour Party, I contend.
Our new figures are:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Other 1
We still have no-one on 50%, and our lowest scorers are now a vague 'Other'. Let's suppose that they are English Democrats and the Monster Raving Loony Party.
We'll redistribute the English Democrats to UKIP, and redistribute the Monster Raving Loony votes to their natural home - the Liberal Democrats.
Our table now looks like this:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 10.5
UKIP 4.5
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
With still no-one on 50%, let's redistribute again. Let's give the Green Party vote share to the pre-election Liberal Democrats - let's give them the entire lot. Our new table now looks this way:
Con 36
Lab 44
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 4.5
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
With still no-one making 50%, we redistribute yet again. So, let's divide the BNP votes between UKIP and the Labour Party. Here's our new vote table:
Con 36
Lab 45
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 5.5
SNP / PCY 2
Still no candidate with 50%. Let's carve up the Scottish and Welsh nationalist vote... and let's give the entire lot to Labour. Here's the new table:
Con 36
Lab 47
Lib Dem 11.5
UKIP 5.5
Still nobody has 50%. Let's carve them up again. Let's redistribute UKIP's votes and give the entire lot to the Conservative Party:
Con 41.5
Lab 47
Lib Dem 11.5
And still nobody has 50% of the vote. Let's redistribute the Lib Dem vote equally between Labour and the Conservatives:
Con 47.25
Lab 52.75
So, Labour get through the 50% milestone, Labour take this seat.
...but hang on. What happened to those BNP voters? What happened to the UKIP voters? What happened to the Green Party voters?? And what happened to the Lib Dem voters? They are still being represented by a Labour MP in this scenario.
So, where will the fairer votes be?
We had a system for fairer votes. It was the very first table produced, from YouGov. Here it is again:
Con 36
Lab 43
Lib Dem 10
UKIP 4
SNP / PCY 2
BNP 2
Green 1
Respect 0
Other 1
Under proportional representation - the truly fair vote system - all of the parties in a reduced House of Commons would be represented (apart from the Respect party, but how do we give them 0% of an MP?).
Under proportional representation in a reduced House of Commons, a party would need 301 seats to form a majority Government.
Here's what they would have, remembering why we're using these figures:
Con 216 seats
Lab 258 seats
Lib Dem 60 seats
UKIP 24 seats
SNP / PCY 12 seats
BNP 12 seats
Green 6 seats
Respect 0
Other 6 seats
Even with the six seats we cannot allocate due to having rounded percentages at the outset, the outcome is clear - a hung Parliament, a coalition would have to be formed, and compromises would have to be found between election manifestos and policies enacted in Government.
If we're going to truly argue for fairer votes, then proportional representation is the system to use.
Some - those in the 'Yes' to AV camp - would have you believe that AV is a stepping stone to full proportional representation in the future. Bullshit.
Question... why not just offer it now?
As it is not being offered, any argument about fairer votes says that it will only be "fairer" to those who gain from the new system.
I cannot see UKIP, for example, gaining from AV. A party that comes fourth with a 4% or 5% vote share is unlikely to take 24 seats under AV (as it should under a fair system), and would rely - as the Green Party did in Brighton - on concentrated local campaigns to get any representation at all.
So, my view is that AV is just a great LibLabCon which is presenting itself as 'fairer' but is nothing of the sort.
The outcome of an AV election, in my view, will be no different than we have today - with the Liberal Democrats still be able to make cosy little, grubby little deals and get themselves into Government, despite only getting one in ten people to vote for them.
Proportional representation is the truly 'fairer' vote system, but the electorate may never know what they are going to get, irrespective of manifestos or largest parties (remember Gordon Brown gripping the Downing Street door frame after he'd lost?) due to the need for coalitions to be formed - probably.
In conclusion, this blog's position is this:
We would welcome fairer votes, but we're saying NO2AV and no to Nick Clegg who is the only person who has (belatedly) ever asked for it.
See also:
Daily Mail Editorial - Shabby deals and a threat to democracy
Idiot of the week: Our Nominations
In a condensed format from the norm, we've looked at a few stories worthy of mention and decided to give you a Friday morning list of our nominations for 'Idiot of the Week'.
Is it...
European Court President Jean-Paul Costa who does not see the irony of comparing Britain to a dictatorship, without acknowledging that this is exactly what the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union themselves are...
Or is the biggest idiot of the week Conservative MP Laurence Robertson who has, apparently, gone on record demanding that every single one of us should be stuck on a DNA database...
Is your idiot of the week Tory grandee Michael Heseltine, who went onto BBC's Question Time last night and told Nigel Farage and the country that by surrendering our sovereignty to Europe, we had 'enhanced' our sovereignty (and kept a straight face, too)...
Or, in international politics, is your idiot of the week the unknown person at Fox News who has damaged the credibility of the entire channel all around the world after appearing to seek to influence people's political views of Ron Paul, deceiving the public by playing old footage of audience reaction to try and - it is suggested - to falsely present Ron Paul as an unpopular figure when, increasingly, the opposite is true. We won't be watching Fox News again.
Those are our nominees for 'Idiot of the Week'... who will you choose?
Is it...
European Court President Jean-Paul Costa who does not see the irony of comparing Britain to a dictatorship, without acknowledging that this is exactly what the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union themselves are...
Or is the biggest idiot of the week Conservative MP Laurence Robertson who has, apparently, gone on record demanding that every single one of us should be stuck on a DNA database...
Is your idiot of the week Tory grandee Michael Heseltine, who went onto BBC's Question Time last night and told Nigel Farage and the country that by surrendering our sovereignty to Europe, we had 'enhanced' our sovereignty (and kept a straight face, too)...
Or, in international politics, is your idiot of the week the unknown person at Fox News who has damaged the credibility of the entire channel all around the world after appearing to seek to influence people's political views of Ron Paul, deceiving the public by playing old footage of audience reaction to try and - it is suggested - to falsely present Ron Paul as an unpopular figure when, increasingly, the opposite is true. We won't be watching Fox News again.
Those are our nominees for 'Idiot of the Week'... who will you choose?
Thursday, 17 February 2011
One way of getting us out of Europe, Gerard.... demand that they audit the Bank of England!
Only UKIP has the balls to ask the questions...
Empire, Gerard? Nice touch!
I'll bet anything that if the EU try doing this, we'll be an independent sovereign state again, faster than you can say 'Bilderberg'...
Let's hope this goes viral and people start asking themselves... who DOES own the Bank of England..?
Empire, Gerard? Nice touch!
I'll bet anything that if the EU try doing this, we'll be an independent sovereign state again, faster than you can say 'Bilderberg'...
Let's hope this goes viral and people start asking themselves... who DOES own the Bank of England..?
My goodness... a Minister who can admit to having "got this one wrong"..? Whatever next?
At The Talking Clock, we have a backlog of issues that we want to post about and all the relevant background is up there ^^^ in our open browser tabs. Lots of it.
Part of one thought is simply this - blogging has changed under the present Government.
Yes, we can harshly question David Cameron's claims to defend our national sovereignty... for as long as he gives us yet more words rather than deeds.
And we can happily hate on Quisling Clegg, because - firstly - he deserves it and because even most (former) Liberal Democrat voters can't stand him.
As for William Hague... well, he's made lots of new friends in Brussels, so we can forget him.
But, before we digress too far, blogging has changed under the current Government.
Remember New Labour?
On at least a daily basis - often several times a day - we had reason after reason after reason to hate the tyrannical, freedom hating bastards.
Forget Jacqui Smith's porn films... forget Gordon Brown's economic incompetence (who bought all the gold?)...
...no, what made us hate the New Labour authoritarians with a passion and hatred never felt for any group of people ever in our lifetime was their attitude - above and beyond anything else - to civil liberties.
Never, ever, ever must Labour be let back into power.
So, blogging since they have gone is different.
There are still plenty of things happening in the world for us to get annoyed at, sometimes even ruddy angry at.
But since when did a Government minister go to the House of Commons, put their hands up, and say: "we got this one wrong" and withdraw a policy proposal?
Not in a very, very, very long time.
Before New Labour, Ministers used to resign for minor failings and indiscretions.
Under New Labour, they clung on until the bitter end and - if they were so sleazy that they had to (repeatedly) resign, they were just elevated to the House of Lords - from where they were still appointed to the Cabinet again, anyway.
So, we would like to praise Caroline Spelman for going to the House of Commons and putting her hands up over the proposal to sell off Britain's forests.
Okay, she was a right numptie suggesting such a barking mad and heinous idea in the first place.
But they have heard the public anger, paused, backed down... and Spelman herself has put her hands up.
How refreshing. How thoroughly the way politics should be.
I really approve of that. That shows hints of a return to true democracy, where we can have a debate in the country and the Government will - seemingly - behave in a way that shows that they understand that they're the servant, not the master.
How different from the tyranny of New Labour.
Take a bow, Caroline Spelman. You're a political... errr... gentleman.
Wonder if such a faux pas with words will have me dragged off to prison? (which was seemingly Labour policy).
Now, if only we could get the current Government to take the action we want them to on the European Empire. And'man made global warming' 'climate change'...
Part of one thought is simply this - blogging has changed under the present Government.
Yes, we can harshly question David Cameron's claims to defend our national sovereignty... for as long as he gives us yet more words rather than deeds.
And we can happily hate on Quisling Clegg, because - firstly - he deserves it and because even most (former) Liberal Democrat voters can't stand him.
As for William Hague... well, he's made lots of new friends in Brussels, so we can forget him.
But, before we digress too far, blogging has changed under the current Government.
Remember New Labour?
On at least a daily basis - often several times a day - we had reason after reason after reason to hate the tyrannical, freedom hating bastards.
Forget Jacqui Smith's porn films... forget Gordon Brown's economic incompetence (who bought all the gold?)...
...no, what made us hate the New Labour authoritarians with a passion and hatred never felt for any group of people ever in our lifetime was their attitude - above and beyond anything else - to civil liberties.
Never, ever, ever must Labour be let back into power.
So, blogging since they have gone is different.
There are still plenty of things happening in the world for us to get annoyed at, sometimes even ruddy angry at.
But since when did a Government minister go to the House of Commons, put their hands up, and say: "we got this one wrong" and withdraw a policy proposal?
Not in a very, very, very long time.
Before New Labour, Ministers used to resign for minor failings and indiscretions.
Under New Labour, they clung on until the bitter end and - if they were so sleazy that they had to (repeatedly) resign, they were just elevated to the House of Lords - from where they were still appointed to the Cabinet again, anyway.
So, we would like to praise Caroline Spelman for going to the House of Commons and putting her hands up over the proposal to sell off Britain's forests.
Okay, she was a right numptie suggesting such a barking mad and heinous idea in the first place.
But they have heard the public anger, paused, backed down... and Spelman herself has put her hands up.
How refreshing. How thoroughly the way politics should be.
I really approve of that. That shows hints of a return to true democracy, where we can have a debate in the country and the Government will - seemingly - behave in a way that shows that they understand that they're the servant, not the master.
How different from the tyranny of New Labour.
Take a bow, Caroline Spelman. You're a political... errr... gentleman.
Wonder if such a faux pas with words will have me dragged off to prison? (which was seemingly Labour policy).
Now, if only we could get the current Government to take the action we want them to on the European Empire. And
All those arguments against giving us a referendum on the EUSSR just died
We will post about the AV referendum a little later.
Just a quick question...
What reason can the political class possibly give us to deny us a referendum on the European Empire now..?
Costs are obviously not a problem...
The people can obviously be trusted...
Those are the old two tired out, clapped out old excuses for denying us a say.
No, the only truth is the one we knew all along.
They know how the British people will respond to any referendum on the EUSSR.
And they don't want to give us a chance.
Don't know why they're worried. We can just make like Ireland and keep on voting until we give them the answer they want.
So, as an initial response?
Democracy? You're having a laugh.
I'll name several more democratic countries, shall I?
Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, Zimbabwe...
Oh, hang on. They can't be right... we went to war with one or two of those (the ones with oil) in the name of 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'.
So, why are we being given the referendum nobody asked for or wanted?
Why can't we have the referendum we've all been demanding?
Oh, because - on both counts - Nick Clegg will cwy and cwy and cwy and scweam.
But the argument against a referendum on the European Empire just died.
What say we give them until St. George's Day to announce it, then descend on Parliament Square in our hundreds of thousands? Are you with me?
It worked in Egypt.
But then, Egypt is slightly more democratic, eh, Mr. Clegg?
Just a quick question...
What reason can the political class possibly give us to deny us a referendum on the European Empire now..?
Costs are obviously not a problem...
The people can obviously be trusted...
Those are the old two tired out, clapped out old excuses for denying us a say.
No, the only truth is the one we knew all along.
They know how the British people will respond to any referendum on the EUSSR.
And they don't want to give us a chance.
Don't know why they're worried. We can just make like Ireland and keep on voting until we give them the answer they want.
So, as an initial response?
Democracy? You're having a laugh.
I'll name several more democratic countries, shall I?
Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, Zimbabwe...
Oh, hang on. They can't be right... we went to war with one or two of those (the ones with oil) in the name of 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'.
So, why are we being given the referendum nobody asked for or wanted?
Why can't we have the referendum we've all been demanding?
Oh, because - on both counts - Nick Clegg will cwy and cwy and cwy and scweam.
But the argument against a referendum on the European Empire just died.
What say we give them until St. George's Day to announce it, then descend on Parliament Square in our hundreds of thousands? Are you with me?
It worked in Egypt.
But then, Egypt is slightly more democratic, eh, Mr. Clegg?
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
EUSSR: Call Me Dave's apparent candour (or crocodile tears) at PMQs
Did you catch PMQs earlier today? If not, you must watch either via the BBC website or on BBC Parliament.
Call Me Dave is seemingly entering 'eu-sceptic' mode.
Firstly, prompted by Nicholas Soames (a man utterly loathed by this blogger for Diana related reasons), Call Me Dave blasted the never ending waves of regulations sweeping over this country from Brussels.
So much like Nigel Farage-lite was he, that we thought he was about to announce British withdrawal. No such luck. But we suspect Dave would like you to think he might do... some day. Twelfth of never.
In fact, to our untrained ear, it sounded as though Dave was calling out the EU, accusing it of being bad for British business.
Something that UKIP and Nigel Farage have been saying for years.
Then there was an attack on human rights legislation and calls for Britain to leave the remit of the ECHR.
There seems to be a EU-sceptic narrative flowing from Downing Street at the moment.
We hope that we get a response to some of this from one of the UKIP big hitters, prepared to hold the sword, but:
Daily Mail: Cameron's anger at Cable over failure to halt EU worker rules
Daily Mail: Euro judges 'will not have final say' on prisoner vote, vows Attorney General (as he hints of withdrawal from European court)
Daily Telegraph: George Osborne refuses to endorse Europe's accounts
Open Europe: Progress?
A handful of promises, ready to be deconstructed... what say you, Nigel?
See also:
UKIP: ECHR IS a Requirement of EU Membership (Stuart Agnew MEP)
IanPJ on Politics - ECHR & British Bill of Rights – a smokescreen
Call Me Dave is seemingly entering 'eu-sceptic' mode.
Firstly, prompted by Nicholas Soames (a man utterly loathed by this blogger for Diana related reasons), Call Me Dave blasted the never ending waves of regulations sweeping over this country from Brussels.
So much like Nigel Farage-lite was he, that we thought he was about to announce British withdrawal. No such luck. But we suspect Dave would like you to think he might do... some day. Twelfth of never.
In fact, to our untrained ear, it sounded as though Dave was calling out the EU, accusing it of being bad for British business.
Something that UKIP and Nigel Farage have been saying for years.
Then there was an attack on human rights legislation and calls for Britain to leave the remit of the ECHR.
There seems to be a EU-sceptic narrative flowing from Downing Street at the moment.
We hope that we get a response to some of this from one of the UKIP big hitters, prepared to hold the sword, but:
Daily Mail: Cameron's anger at Cable over failure to halt EU worker rules
Daily Mail: Euro judges 'will not have final say' on prisoner vote, vows Attorney General (as he hints of withdrawal from European court)
Daily Telegraph: George Osborne refuses to endorse Europe's accounts
Open Europe: Progress?
A handful of promises, ready to be deconstructed... what say you, Nigel?
See also:
UKIP: ECHR IS a Requirement of EU Membership (Stuart Agnew MEP)
IanPJ on Politics - ECHR & British Bill of Rights – a smokescreen
Global economies, crashed by design?
Going to post this very quickly, to clear these research tabs from my browser... and because it requires you to form your own narrative by connecting the dots.
Last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the IMF had "called for a new world currency".
Now, this is the Dominique Strauss-Kahn of whom The Guardian had this to say last year:
"The head of the IMF (and Bilderberger), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, looks at the world and declares: "Crisis is an opportunity." He sees the precarious global economy and floats the idea for "a new global currency issued by a global central bank"."
So far, we have the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. No David Icke in sight.
Let's add in the always excellent Mary Ellen Synon of the Daily Mail who writes:
"It is also time for the Irish to look up from the election and pay attention to exactly what the EU and IMF are doing to the crippled Club Med country. It’s the Greeks now, but the Irish later."
Now, Mary points her finger of blame squarely at the EU and absolves the IMF.
She does, however, note the enforced selling off of Greek state assets.
Which sounds awfully like selling off the UK's woodlands and forests.
Who gains?
There appears to be some very large dots around this issue of global economic problems, with some believing that it has been crashed by design in a move towards global governance.
Now, we could all look at the folk wearing tin foil hats, point, and laugh. They wouldn't really crash the economies of the world by design, would they?
Follow the money?
Last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the IMF had "called for a new world currency".
Now, this is the Dominique Strauss-Kahn of whom The Guardian had this to say last year:
"The head of the IMF (and Bilderberger), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, looks at the world and declares: "Crisis is an opportunity." He sees the precarious global economy and floats the idea for "a new global currency issued by a global central bank"."
So far, we have the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. No David Icke in sight.
Let's add in the always excellent Mary Ellen Synon of the Daily Mail who writes:
"It is also time for the Irish to look up from the election and pay attention to exactly what the EU and IMF are doing to the crippled Club Med country. It’s the Greeks now, but the Irish later."
Now, Mary points her finger of blame squarely at the EU and absolves the IMF.
She does, however, note the enforced selling off of Greek state assets.
Which sounds awfully like selling off the UK's woodlands and forests.
Who gains?
There appears to be some very large dots around this issue of global economic problems, with some believing that it has been crashed by design in a move towards global governance.
Now, we could all look at the folk wearing tin foil hats, point, and laugh. They wouldn't really crash the economies of the world by design, would they?
Follow the money?
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
A message to economists from we, the thicko little people who don't have enough money to tax dodge or register ourselves offshore
Hello, economist bankers (or, at least, I think the third word is correct).
There's much writing in the internet and talking on the telly about inflation, today.
Now, I know enough about those complicated topics that you pay yourselves seven digit figures to anal-ise to be able to say this...
Yes, we know there's inflation.
We, the working people of this country, have known it for ages.
All the time - everything goes up: gas, electric, public transport, rented accommodation, groceries.
We would like to talk about the rising prices of luxury items which seem to have caught the eye of the Daily Mail, but really... we can't afford restaurants, hotels or furniture.
We can't even afford the groceries we were able to afford a year ago.
The tax rises aren't helping.
We take home less than we did a year ago, and everything has just gone up with the VAT increase.
We note that this increase in taxes is to fund:
- £1 billion in aid to India
- Billions and billions to the European Union
- Bailing out banks
- Fake climate change scams
- Bailing out Greece and Ireland
- Housing the entire world's economic migrants and supporting their benefits
Are you surprised that we, the people hate you all... when we can't afford our food - let alone a night out - while you rob us blind to fund that lot?
There's inflation?
Well, there's a shock. What's the rate?
Only, employers aren't giving us pay rises, either. Which means we're getting less money this year (in 'real terms', in economo-speak) than we did last and things are going to be even tighter. Same as the year before, and the one before that.
Good job we're not Egyptians, innit?
You bar stewards!
See also:
Andrew Neil - We clearly have an 'inflation problem'
There's much writing in the internet and talking on the telly about inflation, today.
Now, I know enough about those complicated topics that you pay yourselves seven digit figures to anal-ise to be able to say this...
Yes, we know there's inflation.
We, the working people of this country, have known it for ages.
All the time - everything goes up: gas, electric, public transport, rented accommodation, groceries.
We would like to talk about the rising prices of luxury items which seem to have caught the eye of the Daily Mail, but really... we can't afford restaurants, hotels or furniture.
We can't even afford the groceries we were able to afford a year ago.
The tax rises aren't helping.
We take home less than we did a year ago, and everything has just gone up with the VAT increase.
We note that this increase in taxes is to fund:
- £1 billion in aid to India
- Billions and billions to the European Union
- Bailing out banks
- Fake climate change scams
- Bailing out Greece and Ireland
- Housing the entire world's economic migrants and supporting their benefits
Are you surprised that we, the people hate you all... when we can't afford our food - let alone a night out - while you rob us blind to fund that lot?
There's inflation?
Well, there's a shock. What's the rate?
Only, employers aren't giving us pay rises, either. Which means we're getting less money this year (in 'real terms', in economo-speak) than we did last and things are going to be even tighter. Same as the year before, and the one before that.
Good job we're not Egyptians, innit?
You bar stewards!
See also:
Andrew Neil - We clearly have an 'inflation problem'
Monday, 14 February 2011
Conspiracy researchers should check out The Guardian today
Okay. This blog is going to be very careful with this, but it would be remiss to not point you all in the direction of this story.
Now, we know that a lot of people believe that 9/11 was an "inside job".
This blog believes that there should be a UK based inquiry into the 9/11 events, seeing as our freedoms and liberties were relentlessly attacked - indeed, we were terrorised - as a result by New Labour, and we were then taken into two very dodgy wars on the basis of the "game changer" of those events which seemingly defy all of the laws of physics.
There is an ongoing process concerning what then happened here - 7/7 - which makes it very sensitive and something that this blog does not want to risk commenting on today.
We do know that a lot of our readers have problems with the politics of The Guardian. We share those same feelings as many who note the newspaper's leanings.
However, it does do some things very well indeed.
Prepare to be educated:
H/T: Prison Planet
Now, we know that a lot of people believe that 9/11 was an "inside job".
This blog believes that there should be a UK based inquiry into the 9/11 events, seeing as our freedoms and liberties were relentlessly attacked - indeed, we were terrorised - as a result by New Labour, and we were then taken into two very dodgy wars on the basis of the "game changer" of those events which seemingly defy all of the laws of physics.
There is an ongoing process concerning what then happened here - 7/7 - which makes it very sensitive and something that this blog does not want to risk commenting on today.
We do know that a lot of our readers have problems with the politics of The Guardian. We share those same feelings as many who note the newspaper's leanings.
However, it does do some things very well indeed.
Prepare to be educated:
Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US after just five yearsand
Exclusive: Release prompts claim Islamist was US informant while assisting London terrorist
The al-Qaida supergrass and the 7/7 questions that remain unansweredNo comments on this one please, guys. For educational and research purposes only.
The early release of a jihadi turned US supergrass who helped a London bomber has rung alarm bells.
H/T: Prison Planet
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Quote of the Day: 13th February 2011
"Oliver Letwin has been tasked with stopping Whitehall from being a breeding ground for new regulations. Cameron jokingly refers to Letwin as a ‘contraceptive’, because it’s his job to stop these regulations being conceived – usually after a little European foreplay. It’s a huge task. The problem is that you have the entire British Civil Service playing Barry White CDs and making eyes at Brussels; the two of them make out on the small print sofa and breed regulations like rabbits."
- Fraser Nelson in The Spectator
See also:
James Forsyth (Daily Mail) - It must be serious... even that nice Mr Letwin's had enough of Europe
Douglas Carswell MP - Eurosceptic talk is easy. But what will ministers actually do?
Mary Ellen Synon - Votes for prisoners: how David Cameron is hiding the truth about European power over 'human rights'
- Fraser Nelson in The Spectator
Update: Read the comments in response to Fraser's article carefully and you'll spot the response from Bill Cash MP.
Bill Cash - who is respected by this blog - ends his post by saying:
"The prisoner votes issue is important, but don't forget it's a symptom of the fundamental sovereignty issue of which you make so much - not "constitutional outrage". It was an engineered free vote and the whipped vote is to come."
See also:
James Forsyth (Daily Mail) - It must be serious... even that nice Mr Letwin's had enough of Europe
Douglas Carswell MP - Eurosceptic talk is easy. But what will ministers actually do?
Mary Ellen Synon - Votes for prisoners: how David Cameron is hiding the truth about European power over 'human rights'
Sunday Paper Review: 13th February 2011
Last year, cider drinkers of Britain joined forces to save the British drink from a 'Wurzel Tax'.
Let's see how we respond to this one, drawing in all the right strands to cause a right regular patriotic fuss.
Take an old, quintessentially British drink - in this case, nettle beer.
Then add an unholy alliance of the taxman and the dictatorship known as the European Union.
Insert into this narrative a tiny Cornish brewery which may be forced out of business over a Eurocratic decree that nettle beer is an 'alchopop'.
The Mail on Sunday has the full story and we'd hope that someone might make it a big patriotic issue by Monday.
They'll be banning lightbulbs next....
The European Union's prototype model for forcing people with seperate languages and cultures together in a one-size-fits-none union is the subject of a report in the Independent on Sunday.
Yes, it's Nigel Farage's favourite place on Planet Earth... Belgium - home of damp rag dictator Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy.
The report tells how: "A week today, the Belgians will wrest from Iraqis the title of the country which has gone the longest after an election – 252 days – without agreeing on a new government."
It goes on to add that the politicians: "...have not offered any detailed suggestions on how to resolve any of the political, or economic or cultural tensions that seem to be tearing Belgium apart."
A fine model for the European Union and it's unelected President to follow, it seems.
The formerly sovereign state of Greece - now an EU protectorate - is the focus of a really interesting story in The Observer.
While Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou describes Greece's relationship with Germany as "excellent" (how are those bailout funds trickling through?), the story reveals that the Greek state is to back compensation claims from villagers seeking millions in damages for Nazi atrocities in a village outside Delphi in 1944.
We in Britain, of course, stood up to the Nazis and Hitler's vision of a united Europe - united under a wicked dictatorship, remote, authoritarian... we also kicked out New Labour when they started wearing Jackboots (eh, Jacqui?), spying on us, demanding our papers in the streets and compiling databases on us left, right and centre.
We in Britain, through our resistance, liberated Europe.
Only for them to then go under an unelected dictatorship with no concept of Habeas Corpus, civil liberties, lacking democratic legitimacy...
You'd think the people of Europe would love us, really.
But still we never even get any points at Eurovision.
Everything changes, but still it stays the same.
The Sunday Express has the smallest story ever on "TORY splits over Europe".
It really could have been written on the back of a postage stamp, the article in question.
But had the Conservative Party not been so spineless about the European Union question, they would now have a majority and not have to share Government with the Liberal Democrats.
In our opinion.
Still, roughly 90% of Conservative Party MPs are rampant Europhiles - according to the votes records of this Parliament prior to Thursday.
And Theresa May and her Home Office keep signing us up to yet more European Union diktats which reduce our sovereignty.
Either the Conservatives are all hypocrites (bar one or two like Douglas Carswell, English hero), else they are all extremely scared of Bilderberg attendee Ken Clarke.
Until they sort it out, Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy can sleep safely in his unelected bed a little while longer, one feels.
Staying with places lacking in democracy... after Egypt comes Algeria. The Sunday Mirror takes a break from articles attacking the Conservatives (which would be okay, if they weren't so pro-Labour) and reports that: "More than 400 protesters were arrested as riot police fired plastic bullets at pro-democracy activists in Algeria yesterday."
Seems we, the people don't like it - anywhere - when we're dictated to and have no democratic way of removing those who rule over us.
No, you really don't like it, do eu?
The Sunday Telegraph has an article which has brought out rampant homophobia amongst the greater percentage of their readers, if the comments section is anything to go by.
The story concerned is about news that a ban on lesbian and gay couples showing their commitment to each other in places of religious worship may be lifted.
Quite right, too.
One of the arguments that used to be used against gay lifestyles was that they were 'promiscuous'.
Now that they're allowed civil partnerships, tens of thousands of LGBT couples have decided to show their commitment to each other in Town Halls and registry offices up and down the land. But they have not been allowed to show their commitment in the eyes of a religious leader in a place of worship.
Now that they might be able to, it appears that the arguments being used by homophobes is - to coin a phrase - "it's against God's law!".
Really? Which God? (he says, struggling to refrain from mentioning choirboys).
You see, as a pagan, I think there are a great many Gods and Goddesses. And, without wishing to engage with those with prejudice (who I see all over the blogs all of the time), one of the most widely accepted pagan creeds is: 'An it harm none, do what thou wilt'.
Which oddly enough is a very libertarian creed.
Which probably explains why a libertarian like me is very happy with the Olde Religion of these shores.
And it probably explains why a great many pagan groups have been happy to conduct handfastings - religious marriages - for same sex couples for a very long time already.
And if you don't like it - and I suspect this opinion will have people looking to post homophobia in the comments section... what can I say?
I am a conservative libertarian. The Olde English religion of paganism, the ethos of 'An it harm none, do what thou wilt'.
Relax already.
Back to the Sunday Telegraph article, notice how the word 'marriage' is placed within quotation marks throughout the entire article. They do not talk about gay marriage ceremonies, they talk about gay "marriage" ceremonies.
Not that such a distinction is intended to influence the way readers respond to an article - oh no. Nothing as simple as a quotation mark could really make homophobes feel content in their views, could it?
As for the comments, they're vile enough to reassure people worried about equality and political correctness that you can say whatever you like - as offensive as you like - without being arrested.
How very reassuring.
And finally... in a great advert for heterosexuality, the Sunday Mirror has a splash on Shane Warne and infidelity with a porn star. Hey, it's only sex. That's how you got here. Honest.
But maybe, if the allegations are true, they'd all cheat less if someone could persuade them to have civil partnership ceremonies. Or enjoy a "marriage", as the Sunday Telegraph calls it.
Right, must dash. Mr. and Mrs. Smith from down the road are just back from their swingers club and they're going to show me this lay-by they use to go "dogging" in, whatever that means.
Tell you, I really don't understand. They only have a goldfish, and quite why they'd need to take Jonah to a lay-by is beyond me...
Final thought:
"The English Defence League (EDL) is a human rights organisation that was founded in the wake of the shocking actions of a small group of Muslim extremists who, at a homecoming parade in Luton, openly mocked the sacrifices of our service personnel without any fear of censure. Although these actions were certainly those of a minority, we believe that they reflect other forms of religiously-inspired intolerance and barbarity that are thriving amongst certain sections of the Muslim population in Britain: including, but not limited to, the denigration and oppression of women, the molestation of young children, the committing of so-called honour killings, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and continued support for those responsible for terrorist atrocities."
It says so HERE.
The English Defence League's libertarian values certainly appear to put those of the Sunday Telegraph's average reader to shame, it seems.
Let's see how we respond to this one, drawing in all the right strands to cause a right regular patriotic fuss.
Take an old, quintessentially British drink - in this case, nettle beer.
Then add an unholy alliance of the taxman and the dictatorship known as the European Union.
Insert into this narrative a tiny Cornish brewery which may be forced out of business over a Eurocratic decree that nettle beer is an 'alchopop'.
The Mail on Sunday has the full story and we'd hope that someone might make it a big patriotic issue by Monday.
They'll be banning lightbulbs next....
The European Union's prototype model for forcing people with seperate languages and cultures together in a one-size-fits-none union is the subject of a report in the Independent on Sunday.
Yes, it's Nigel Farage's favourite place on Planet Earth... Belgium - home of damp rag dictator Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy.
The report tells how: "A week today, the Belgians will wrest from Iraqis the title of the country which has gone the longest after an election – 252 days – without agreeing on a new government."
It goes on to add that the politicians: "...have not offered any detailed suggestions on how to resolve any of the political, or economic or cultural tensions that seem to be tearing Belgium apart."
A fine model for the European Union and it's unelected President to follow, it seems.
The formerly sovereign state of Greece - now an EU protectorate - is the focus of a really interesting story in The Observer.
While Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou describes Greece's relationship with Germany as "excellent" (how are those bailout funds trickling through?), the story reveals that the Greek state is to back compensation claims from villagers seeking millions in damages for Nazi atrocities in a village outside Delphi in 1944.
We in Britain, of course, stood up to the Nazis and Hitler's vision of a united Europe - united under a wicked dictatorship, remote, authoritarian... we also kicked out New Labour when they started wearing Jackboots (eh, Jacqui?), spying on us, demanding our papers in the streets and compiling databases on us left, right and centre.
We in Britain, through our resistance, liberated Europe.
Only for them to then go under an unelected dictatorship with no concept of Habeas Corpus, civil liberties, lacking democratic legitimacy...
You'd think the people of Europe would love us, really.
But still we never even get any points at Eurovision.
Everything changes, but still it stays the same.
The Sunday Express has the smallest story ever on "TORY splits over Europe".
It really could have been written on the back of a postage stamp, the article in question.
But had the Conservative Party not been so spineless about the European Union question, they would now have a majority and not have to share Government with the Liberal Democrats.
In our opinion.
Still, roughly 90% of Conservative Party MPs are rampant Europhiles - according to the votes records of this Parliament prior to Thursday.
And Theresa May and her Home Office keep signing us up to yet more European Union diktats which reduce our sovereignty.
Either the Conservatives are all hypocrites (bar one or two like Douglas Carswell, English hero), else they are all extremely scared of Bilderberg attendee Ken Clarke.
Until they sort it out, Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy can sleep safely in his unelected bed a little while longer, one feels.
Staying with places lacking in democracy... after Egypt comes Algeria. The Sunday Mirror takes a break from articles attacking the Conservatives (which would be okay, if they weren't so pro-Labour) and reports that: "More than 400 protesters were arrested as riot police fired plastic bullets at pro-democracy activists in Algeria yesterday."
Seems we, the people don't like it - anywhere - when we're dictated to and have no democratic way of removing those who rule over us.
No, you really don't like it, do eu?
The Sunday Telegraph has an article which has brought out rampant homophobia amongst the greater percentage of their readers, if the comments section is anything to go by.
The story concerned is about news that a ban on lesbian and gay couples showing their commitment to each other in places of religious worship may be lifted.
Quite right, too.
One of the arguments that used to be used against gay lifestyles was that they were 'promiscuous'.
Now that they're allowed civil partnerships, tens of thousands of LGBT couples have decided to show their commitment to each other in Town Halls and registry offices up and down the land. But they have not been allowed to show their commitment in the eyes of a religious leader in a place of worship.
Now that they might be able to, it appears that the arguments being used by homophobes is - to coin a phrase - "it's against God's law!".
Really? Which God? (he says, struggling to refrain from mentioning choirboys).
You see, as a pagan, I think there are a great many Gods and Goddesses. And, without wishing to engage with those with prejudice (who I see all over the blogs all of the time), one of the most widely accepted pagan creeds is: 'An it harm none, do what thou wilt'.
Which oddly enough is a very libertarian creed.
Which probably explains why a libertarian like me is very happy with the Olde Religion of these shores.
And it probably explains why a great many pagan groups have been happy to conduct handfastings - religious marriages - for same sex couples for a very long time already.
And if you don't like it - and I suspect this opinion will have people looking to post homophobia in the comments section... what can I say?
I am a conservative libertarian. The Olde English religion of paganism, the ethos of 'An it harm none, do what thou wilt'.
Relax already.
Back to the Sunday Telegraph article, notice how the word 'marriage' is placed within quotation marks throughout the entire article. They do not talk about gay marriage ceremonies, they talk about gay "marriage" ceremonies.
Not that such a distinction is intended to influence the way readers respond to an article - oh no. Nothing as simple as a quotation mark could really make homophobes feel content in their views, could it?
As for the comments, they're vile enough to reassure people worried about equality and political correctness that you can say whatever you like - as offensive as you like - without being arrested.
How very reassuring.
And finally... in a great advert for heterosexuality, the Sunday Mirror has a splash on Shane Warne and infidelity with a porn star. Hey, it's only sex. That's how you got here. Honest.
But maybe, if the allegations are true, they'd all cheat less if someone could persuade them to have civil partnership ceremonies. Or enjoy a "marriage", as the Sunday Telegraph calls it.
Right, must dash. Mr. and Mrs. Smith from down the road are just back from their swingers club and they're going to show me this lay-by they use to go "dogging" in, whatever that means.
Tell you, I really don't understand. They only have a goldfish, and quite why they'd need to take Jonah to a lay-by is beyond me...
Final thought:
"The English Defence League (EDL) is a human rights organisation that was founded in the wake of the shocking actions of a small group of Muslim extremists who, at a homecoming parade in Luton, openly mocked the sacrifices of our service personnel without any fear of censure. Although these actions were certainly those of a minority, we believe that they reflect other forms of religiously-inspired intolerance and barbarity that are thriving amongst certain sections of the Muslim population in Britain: including, but not limited to, the denigration and oppression of women, the molestation of young children, the committing of so-called honour killings, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and continued support for those responsible for terrorist atrocities."
It says so HERE.
The English Defence League's libertarian values certainly appear to put those of the Sunday Telegraph's average reader to shame, it seems.
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Poison in our tap water: Fluoride being banned worldwide... as it gets set to BEGIN in Southampton
The people of Southampton are set to be mass medicated against their consent... and against the consent of Hampshire Council.
A judge has ruled that the local health authority can fluoridate the water supply.
However, fluoride is being banned in areas around the world... and the status of sodium fluoride as a toxic poison is being acknowledged by experts worldwide.
And while we can feel sympathetic with the people of Southampton, the Daily Mail report on this story ends with the ominous warning:
So, for the people of Southampton... and the rest of Britain:
Mainstream media, Australia:
Mainstream media, United States:
Mainstream media, Canada:
Alex Jones:
See also:
Southampton's battle against fluoride - Daily Echo archive
A judge has ruled that the local health authority can fluoridate the water supply.
However, fluoride is being banned in areas around the world... and the status of sodium fluoride as a toxic poison is being acknowledged by experts worldwide.
And while we can feel sympathetic with the people of Southampton, the Daily Mail report on this story ends with the ominous warning:
A spokesman said: ‘This is likely to encourage consultation on similar schemes in other parts of the country where fluoride could help address the poor dental health of the population.’
So, for the people of Southampton... and the rest of Britain:
Mainstream media, Australia:
Mainstream media, United States:
Mainstream media, Canada:
Alex Jones:
See also:
Southampton's battle against fluoride - Daily Echo archive
Council of Europe throws it's toys out of the pram after House of Commons tells it to get stuffed
There's a delicious report in the Daily Mail, covering the repercussions of the historic vote in the House of Commons of Thursday in which forty years of non-stop treason was put on pause and Members of Parliament finally told European dictators to get stuffed.
But guess what? In the words of Corporal Jones, 'they don't like it up 'em!'
One member of PACE is quoted as saying: "I am deeply disappointed by last night’s vote, in defiance of the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on prisoner voting. I had hoped that the parliament of one of Europe’s oldest democracies – regarded as playing a leading role in protecting human rights – would have encouraged the United Kingdom to honour its international obligations. Every member state must implement the judgments of the court. The UK Government has said that it intends to implement this judgment, and I encourage it to find a way to do."
Really? And which war did we lose that means we're now dictated to by... ummm... Cyprus?
Let us repeat what our elected politicians told all of you unelected eurocrats - on our behalf - on Thursday: Get stuffed!
I would encourage the UK Government to do as the British people and the elected Members of Parliament demand - stand up for the sovereignty of our Parliament and our nation.
Failure to do so will cause a real constitutional crisis... as Parliament Square will be descended upon by a great many very angry British people who will not be dictated to by foreign powers, trampling upon our democracy.
To paraphrase our Prime Minister: 'Those who now run Britain have a duty to reflect the wishes of the British people and, in particular, there really must be a move to civilian and democratic rule as part of this important return to an open, democratic and free Britain.'
We've changed very little of that speech. It applies as equally in this country as in the country of which our Prime Minister speaks.
But guess what? In the words of Corporal Jones, 'they don't like it up 'em!'
One member of PACE is quoted as saying: "I am deeply disappointed by last night’s vote, in defiance of the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on prisoner voting. I had hoped that the parliament of one of Europe’s oldest democracies – regarded as playing a leading role in protecting human rights – would have encouraged the United Kingdom to honour its international obligations. Every member state must implement the judgments of the court. The UK Government has said that it intends to implement this judgment, and I encourage it to find a way to do."
Really? And which war did we lose that means we're now dictated to by... ummm... Cyprus?
Let us repeat what our elected politicians told all of you unelected eurocrats - on our behalf - on Thursday: Get stuffed!
I would encourage the UK Government to do as the British people and the elected Members of Parliament demand - stand up for the sovereignty of our Parliament and our nation.
Failure to do so will cause a real constitutional crisis... as Parliament Square will be descended upon by a great many very angry British people who will not be dictated to by foreign powers, trampling upon our democracy.
To paraphrase our Prime Minister: 'Those who now run Britain have a duty to reflect the wishes of the British people and, in particular, there really must be a move to civilian and democratic rule as part of this important return to an open, democratic and free Britain.'
We've changed very little of that speech. It applies as equally in this country as in the country of which our Prime Minister speaks.
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