Monday 9th November 2009

A tad 'under the weather' today so other than posts already done - that is it for today.

See y'all tomorrow.

Alan Johnson Lives In La-La Land

Like others in the political world, wedded to EU membership, Alan Johnson continues to write and spout what can only be described as utter tosh on the subject of immigration.

"We don't have an open-door policy. It is misleading to say we have got one or that we have ever had one. We manage immigration."

The government well may 'manage immigration' from those outside the EU, but for anyone born in the EU this country does have an 'open-door' policy. From whatever country one arrives from to live and work here, they are still immigrants. Hence, yet again, we have an example of a politician being untruthful. 

Rather than attempt to write words of wisdom, perhaps Alan Johnson should revert to his previous 'day-job' and dcliver them!

How True

Melanie Phillips, writing in the Mail on the fall of the Berlin Wall, states:

" It was based on the understanding that what holds a society together are the pillars of its culture: the structures and institutions of education, family, law, media and religion. Transform the principles that these embody and you can thus destroy the society they have shaped." 

Is this not what Blair and Brown have accomplished? Is this not what the aim of the EU is? 'One size fits all' is one of the basic tenets of communism/socialism!

Second Fatality On Rememberance Sunday

So reports the BBC.

Politicians, are you listening? The people say get the troops out!

 

Oh bugger - forgot that whilst we employ you, unlike any normal employer/employee relationship, you don't have to do as we say!

You politicians really are dictatorial bastards!

PC's Subject To 'Queer' PC Rules

Inspector Gadget has an intriguing question in his post this evening and whilst generally mentioning losses suffered by the Police during war, asks:

"Why then, is it against Force Policy to attend Remembrance Day parades in police uniform if you happen to be off duty, but it is OK to wear it for the annual Gay Pride march?"

Come the revolution ACPO - and those like it - are for the 'hemp and lamp post' treatment, sentence to be passed by 'Peoples Councils', to which the ordinary and good will be elected.

Let us see how they like a bit of accountable PC for a change!

Oh Yes It Bloody Will!

Having been out all day, I have only just come across this story and if others have commented on it, apologies, but this really is sufficient to make 'one's blood boil'!

"After abandoning plans to hold a referendum on Europe, following last week’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Mr Hague said the Tories accepted that constitutional reform would not be on the EU agenda for some years."

 Captain Ranty asks: "....are we ready to retaliate?"

You bet Cap'n - when does the revolution start?

Is This Conservative Planning To Neill At The Feet Of The EU?

The hyprocrasy of the Conservative Cameron Party obviously knows no limits and in so doing has thrown it's principles out of the proverbial window, but they really must be careful what form of words in the English language they choose to use and the context in which they do.

Bob Neill, Shadow Planning Minister, has a letter in today's Sunday Telegraph attacking Labour's new quango, the Infrastructure Planning Commission. Neill ends his letter with this paragraph:

"Abolishing democracy [in the planning system] is not way to reinvigorate our broken politics."

But abolish democracy is exactly what you have done, you numpty, by giving the right to dictate our laws to the biggest 'quango' of the bloody lot.

There Are Politicians And There Are Politicians

"Prime Minister, it was you who offered to subsidise improvident banks in the first place. Indeed, in the case of Lloyds, you more or less forced a solvent bank into a position of dependency. It really is a bit rich for you, of all people, to start complaining about the fact that the rest of us are paying for the failures of the financial sector. We never volunteered to bail-out the bankeers; you spent our money without asking us."

Some politicians have the power to use words in a manner that tranfixes the reader, or listener -  unfortunately it is often the the case that those who do not, then become the leader of their party!

Matthew d'Ancona Toes The Party Line

As usual with Matthew d'Ancona, in his Sunday Telegraph piece, he adheres to the Conservative Party line with the same ability as that of a limpet. It is beyond doubt that Matthew d'Ancona is an educated person, with a keen mind, yet one has to question his thinking.

How anyone can consider the present, probable, Conservative shadow government as 'unequivocally Eurosceptic', God only knows. To swallow the promise of 'repatriating powers' and to believing that a referendum will be granted on any further 'transfer of power' does call into question d'Ancona's mental state. For his benefit and those still labouring under a belief that what Cameron said is correct - there will be no other treaty - Lisbon is self-amending and the EU can take as a 'competence' whatever area of government they like. To believe that the EU will agree to Cameron's demands for repatriation of powers in specified areas is to believe the moon is, indeed, made of cheese.

What is 'jurisprudential nonsense' is the belief that a referendum is unnecessary and that one could then be held in 2015, when Cameron will not have succeeded in his 'repatriation of powers'. By then the claws of the EU will be so deeply embedded in the UK it will not be possible. What never ceases to amaze me is the denial that a referendum should be held now and that it should ask the question of who is to govern this country. Because that, in 2015, will in fact be the question of the referendum, were one possible then, so why not 'cut to the chase' and hold it now? It is disengenious of Cameron to say that more important matters face the country, like our balance of payments deficit, when the mechanics of the country's finances are, in fact, dictated by the EU.

d'Ancona is correct on one point - yes, 'the sweet smell of imminent electoral success has sedated the Tory party' but only because the Conservative Party are self-assured of victory at the General election and do not want 'to rock the boat'. He is also correct to point out that the longer the EU problem remains, the harder it becomes to unpick, yet he, too, denies the one simple remedy that even Chris Bryant stated just this week gone and that is all it takes is for any government to have the will power - and guts - to repeal the European Communities Act 1972. It is that simple!

Eurosceptics face a double challenge and that is firstly, the 'hold' the media exerts on the public with their reporting and commenting on 'matters EU' with lies, half-truths and downright denial that a problem exists. Secondly, the failure of 'honourable' politicians of the Con/Lab/Libdems political elite to even admit that a problem exists.

For MEPs, such as Hannan and Helmer, to 'rebel' is a great deal easier than MPs, such as Carswell and Redwood who were they to 'speak out' would, no doubt, result in their deselection by Conservative Central Office. However to those two MPs - and other Eurosceptics, regardless of party - I would have to ask on which of your loyalties lies the greater onus - your party or your country?

In the months to come we will, without any doubt, find out.


Update: Janet Daley is another who cannot 'see the light' over the referendum question. As I am only too aware, a referendum on Lisbon is pointless, but not on the 'sovereignty' question! Prattling on about the subjects of education and health, she forgets that under the 'equality of services' agenda, the EU will, at some point, assume competence on these matters. To hope that 'one day the peoples of Europe may walk away from their oppressors' is short-sighted and, in the meantime Janet, you would like us to suffer when the alternative is so simple?

Another Gem

Returning to the letters page of the Daily Telegraph, another gem is one from Richard Hubble of Missoula, Montana. (no link - I wonder why?)

Sir - I have just read a guest column by Ed Miliband in my local paper, the Missoulian. I can assure you that Montana does not want any of your soon-to-be castoffs. We have enough political misfits of our own.

Robert Hubble

Missoulia, Montana, USA

Presumably this was the 'guest article' crap to which Robert Hubble refers.

Question Answered

The letters page of today's Daily Telegraph contains one from Mr. Tom Bell-Richards of Burford, Oxon.

I understand, on what one may call 'good authority', that the following response, which probably won't get printed, has been sent:

"Sir, In answer to Tom Bell-Richards letter, November 7, "I wish David Cameron, and politicians of all colours, would open a proper debate over whether we want a looser European Union or the United States of Europe." Oh how we have tried, Mr. Bell-Richards - three times David Cameron has been asked to debate Britain's membership of the European Union and three times he has declined.One can only presume he is unable to justify his views.
 

David Phipps
Chairman,
Witney Constituency Association
UK Independence Party"

More On 'IPSA' Kennedy

And this man is 'independent'?

As Douglas Carswell comments: "If you make MPs inwardly answerable to Westminster quangocrats, rather than outwardly accountable to the people, this is what you get. There was once an independent authority to whom our MPs had to answer.  It was known as "the electorate".  We need to make MPs more vulnerable to what it thinks, rather than what mates of SW1 spin-meisters want us to think."

 One supposes that as the Healthcare Commission ceased to exist at the end of March this year, being replaced by the Care Quality Commission - yet another example of wasting taxpayers money, similar to the Housing Corporation and its replacement with the Tenants Standards Authority and the Homes and Community Agency - the government had to find another taxpayer-funded job for one of its 'cronies'.

Mind you, he won't be doing this purely for the benefit of his health - and he is to be paid 'upto £100,000 per annum for heading IPSA?

The Labour Government and their conies venal? You bet they are!

Winterton 'Goes Where Engel Fears To Tread'

Nicholas Winterton, a 'Tory Grandee' has exceeded 'acceptable behaviour' by slapping the bottom of Natascha Engel, Labour MP for North East Derbyshire.

Reported in the Daily Telegraph print edition, fellow Labour MP Kerry McCarthy who it is believed is the Government's Chief Twit, promptly twitted it on her blog.

Leaving aside, for one moment, Winterton's 'decision making ability', perhaps the old boy thought that Engel had also made an arse of herself, during her short parliamentary career, with her expense claims?

The 'Daily' Telegraph

An example of how our beloved MSM keep us informed comes with this 'news' item in today's Telegraph - note the omission of the word 'Daily'.

This story was blogged, by myelf and others, on 1st March - 9 months ago!

Walls - A Thought

20 years ago, this coming Monday, the Berlin Wall was breached opening up a new world of democracy, or so the East Germans thought. It is generally thought that the demonstrations within East Germany in 1989, culminating in crowds of thousands upon thousands, led the authorities to accept they had lost control of the streets. This in turn eventually led to the breaching of the Wall and thus the communist 'frontier'.

Throughout history it can be seen that revolutions usually begin - and succeed - when the ruling elite  is split, or fragmented. The present government have lost the ability will to govern, knowing that they are facing the door marked 'exit' come the general election. The probable incoming government, whilst believing they have the ability to govern, will start on their 'tenure' knowing that in one area - namely membership of the European Union - they are governing against the will of the people. There are many, within their ranks - both MPs, MEPs and the 'grassroots' - who believe likewise, but so far only two MEPs have publicly made a stand on this issue. Consequently it can be argued that the incoming 'government' is also split, albeit that 'split' has, as yet, to manifest itself in any numbers.

Perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt from East Germany, in that public demonstrations in sufficient numbers can change a country's direction and stop the ruling elite in their tracks. Where a country's sovereignty is concerned - the ability of that country to decide who governs it and also where it is seen that those elected to govern, or say they will govern,show themselves totally incapable - is there not a more just reason for holding demonstrations?

It is a sad state of affairs for democracy if those elected to represent the people fail to so do and if those amongst the political elite will not 'step up to the plate' and put country before party, then perhaps the people, through demonstrations, will have to show that leadership.

The question that arises is whilst our elected representatives are supposed to reflect the will of the people, do the people have the will?

Miliband (The One With An Ed) Eats Humble Pie?

So the Government will warn us that unless we build more nuclear power stations quickly, we face an energy shortage in the near future.

How long have the likes of Christopher Booker and others been warning the government about this?

Perhaps if these f'wits, who try to con us that they are wise leaders, had not wasted heaven knows how many millions - or is that billions - of our money on wind farms, climate change and unproven science, actually implemented this 'new idea' earlier there would not be the problem that now exists.

Once again, on being shunned by the electorate in a general election, a Labour government leaves the country 'broken', not just economically but socially too! Mind you, the incoming 'lot' will be no better, headed by someone who is quite content to see the further diminuation of his country's ability to govern itself.

David Cameron trumpets 'Time for change' - too true David, time for a change from you and the mainstream political elite who have no interest in their country, just the type of 'advancement' and 'change' that will benefit them!

Britain To Lose Its Seat On Board Of IMF?

So says some American professor of economics.

"People say that the EU is not a country and only countries can have IMF seats, but that doesn’t really stand now that you’ve got Lisbon. The treaty makes the EU as much a single federal entity as some other IMF members."

If ever there was a statement that 'shot a hole' through the argument that there is no loss of sovereignty, then this must be it!

This is but the start of further diminuation of the independence of the UK - you wait and watch!

IPSA vs Kelly

Sir Christopher Kelly produces a report that all party leaders accept and wish to be implemented without question, yet now we have an 'independent' head of a watchdog saying that well, no I do not accept Kelly's report in its entirety.

WTF!

With the EU, spineless party leaders and MPs and now Kennedy - we truly are living in a 'democratised dictatorship!

Hain - Straight Talk

Okay,  I know I said no posts but then I saw what follows and it sobered me up completely

 The heading is an oxymoron I know, but bear with me..........

Interviewed by Andrew Neil on Straight Talk, Hain is reported as saying: "And when you’ve the recession, when you’ve got a shortage of housing, then you’ve got migration and all of these things come together in a toxic mix, it’s very, very fertile territory for racists and fascists to exploit, as it always has been in history, and we have to take responsibility and shoulder some of the blame for that."

 Some if it?? WTF!

How about all of it, you stupid,, self-important, perma-tanned apology for a politician slime-ball!

Friday 6th November 2009

Apologies to all, but no posts today - been out all day, got home, had dinner and a bottle of vino so consequently, one could say, vino'd over and out' (literally!)

Back to normal tomorrow!