Thursday 30 July 2015

Farage's deficiencies now showing as EU Referendum Campaign starts

Today's DT headline reads, "Farage to No campaigners: Get off your backside or lose." What hypocrisy! Farage has spent the last 10 years kicking out good talented activists, just the sort of people you need across the country to help the Out campaign but replaced by talentless sycophants some of whom like Atkinson and Bashir having been selected on UKIP MEP slates thanks to Farage's favour have already deserted to other parties within one year. They are however on the EU gravy train which is  what they wanted leaving the hard work to the UKIP OAP foot soldiers.

Farage wants to grab the glory of leading the Out campaign but the Tories and others have said no way and rightly want an apolitical business figure. I would add to that an academic a historian not an economist plus a military figure like Tim Collins not a General. That would give Troika leadership better than Farage or a Tory.

Finally the DT says , " Farage will today call for his party to play a leading role in the deabate". Kiss of death for the Out campaign.

http://digital-ukip.nationbuilder.com/how_no_can_win

A very small audience. Crowther cannot organise a decent microphone so one can hear the questions from the floor. So typical of UKIP.

Monday 27 July 2015

Leaving EU would harm status of British universities - lobby group

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/uk-britain-eu-universities-idUKKCN0Q10QU20150727

Thus opines one Julia Goodfellow EU bumlicker frst class

"Brexit" would harm international academic collaboration, Julia Goodfellow, president-elect of Universities UK, is due to say later today at the launch of a university-led campaign attended by pro-EU lawmakers.
"The case for staying in Europe is about ensuring the future prosperity of the UK," she will say.

"It's about maximising the chances of new discoveries that enhance the society in which we live, it's about the UK's standing in the world, it's about British jobs and it's about opportunities for British people now and in the future."
As a former University lecturer I can say with authority this is total bollocks.
Our EU membership is about providing and financing EU students at the best British Universities denying places to our own children and supporting EU students with money we will never get back.
Ah say the Europhiles but our students can go and study at EU institutions. True indeed except with two caveats. They will have to pay for themselves and attend lectures in Portugese, Serbo Croat or whatever.
All EU students learn English from an early age and all major text books are written in English translations. Our home based students would have to master many languages to compete.
All ready Oxford is taking more and more mid Europeans and less and less Geordies. We are the EU's biggest suckers.
Our universities love the EU as they dole out (return) huge amounts of cash as 'research' grants to greedy academics but all such grants are conditional on multi country projects so you need partners in at least 3 other EU countries to get the money. Nice one by the EU bribing us with our own money and providing a nice subsidy to EU airlines.
Another one on the list of the great and the good UK institutions in the EU's pocket
PS
J Good fellow got a pay rise of 19% last year taking her salary as VC Kent to £265000 pa more than call me Dave. No wonde she supports the status quo!

Douglas Carswell has writen the very good answer to Goodfellow I reproduce below. Note she is financed by a organisation that has grown fat on EU money



UNIVERSITIES UK IS WRONG TO SAY UK SHOULD STAY IN EU AT ALL COSTS

This morning, Universities UK has launched a highly political campaign, calling for Britain to remain in the EU at all costs, even before the terms of membership  the UK will be voting on in an EU referendum are made clear. A number of claims by the group do no stand up to scrutiny though. The group is seeking to portray a vote to leave an unreformed EU as damaging for university funding and co-operation, despite this not being the case. Furthermore, as Change, or go points out, the amount of EU funding for Universities is  dwarfed by the amount we pay into the EU, and is not contingent on membership:
Claim: UK universities accessed over £870 million in research funding in 2013 alone.
Response: The main system for channelling funding, Horizon 2020, includes a number of “associated countries” including: Iceland, Norway, Turkey and Israel. The UK does not need to be an EU member to continue to cooperate with Horizon 2020.
Claim: The Erasmus programme 207,546 students and 21,133 staff from the UK have benefited from it.
Response: Erasmus does not require EU membership. Erasmus+ is not limited to just EU states, or even just to EEA countries. The programme covers 32 primary countries – the EU, the EEA, Turkey, and even Macedonia. Nearly every country in the world has opted in to some elements of the Erasmus+ package.
Claim: The UK’s research base has been strengthened by over 6,000 individual researchers coming to UK universities by the EU’s Marie Curie scheme.
Response: A country does not need to be in the EU to benefit from the Marie Curie scheme. According to the Commission, the eligible host institutions for Marie Curie are organisations active in research or researcher training located in EU Member States or “Associated States.”
Claim: Free movement of staff and students allows UK universities to access to talent from across Europe.
Response: Leaving the EU need not compromise the free movement of staff and students. A number of countries, including Norway and Switzerland, have free movement agreements with the EU. However, were Britain to opt out of free movement, the reduction in migratory pressures means that the UK could reverse the decision by the Home Office to scrap the Tier 1 post-study work visa (a decision which, according to the Institute of Directors and James Dyson, has made Britain less attractive to students).
Claim: Nearly half of UK academic papers have an international author
Response: Universities UK admits that “we have links all around the globe.” Our ability to work with countries beyond the EU would not be harmed by leaving the EU.
These arguments are being put forward by the the President-elect of Universities UK, Dame Julia Goodfellow, who is hardly a neutral figure in this debate. She is is Board Member of the extremely pro-EU campaigners British Influence, and she contributed to a 2003 paper that stated “There is no going back from the euro” and claimed that the euro was “an irreversible engine for heightened competitiveness”
Meanwhile, the UK enjoys the highest university standards in Europe, and is outmatched globally only by the United States. The UK Government itself has raised concern about the problems the EU has created in the educational sector in its review of the Balance of Competences:
“The UK Government does not believe that the EU approach to education policy coordination sufficiently recognises the variety and variation of experience and expertise in member states.”
It also states: “Even among what might be considered its natural audience, the inconsistent Ministerial attendance from all member states at meetings of the EducationCouncil or the Youth Council, as well as the level of attendance at Director General meetings, High Level Group meetings and meetings of thematic groups, suggest – anecdotally, at least – a bureaucracy and a system with little traction.”
Outside of an unreformed  EU, the UK would still be capable of cooperating with other universities through a number of key organisations, including:
  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This is the leading organisation for comparative education indicators, analysis and trends, notably through its PISA and Education at a Glance (EAG) programmes. OECD members are not limited to the EU, but include Korea, Australia, Chile and Israel
  • The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
  • United Nations agencies, including UNESCO, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and UNICEF
Even if all these schemes didn’t exist, as home to numerous pre-eminent educational establishments, Britain will remain a key education destination of choice for students across the EU and around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aITzCyYGnJg&feature=youtu.be

Saturday 25 July 2015

Ruling Spad's wives have real life experience their husband's lack

In the 2015 election the three traditional parties were all lead by former Spads, Cameron, Clegg and Milliband alll men who had never done a proper job in their lives. Is it any wonder our country is in such a mess. The former Spad's wives are a different group, all women who have done proper full time jobs, Miriam  Clegg's wife was a big time lawyer as was Justine Milliband an enviromental law barrister.. Sam Cam was a business woman involved in the fashion industry although when Dave became PM she withdrew from her executive postions to avoid accusations of conflict of interest.

So all three of these women have held proper jobs at a senior level and earning large salaries. Their husbands were kept men pursuing their political hobby. I know who I would prefer to run our country.

Friday 24 July 2015

Obama speaks for the interests of the US not the UK on EU membership

Obama is a man I feel I should admire as the first black US president but when I look at his self seeking actions I can fnd nothing to admire. A sordid US politician with a black skin is underneath just another sordid politician. I will never forget how he used the Gulf oil spill to castigate British Petroleum althugh the company had traded as BP for the previous 20 years for his sordid re-election campaign. He gave a nod and a wink for every Gulf con man to pile in wiith unsubstantiated claims against BP up held in dodgy US courts and bringing BP to its knees a position it may never recpver from and makes it easy prey for its  US competitors.

The US firms involved, Halliburton who supllied the cement and Trans Ocean whose rig it was and Cameron Iron who supplied the blow out preventer were not pursued with anything like the same vindictiveness. They got off very lightly. Huge punishment was reserved for the Brits whom Obama hates I presume because they banged up his Mau Mau gran pappy during a murderous terrorist campaign in Kenya. How many uncharged Islamic terrorist suspects do you still hold in Guantanamo Bay Mr President 8 years after you promised to close it? No wonder ISIL grows and flourishes with such a sordid US president who cannot keep his word,

The Piper Alpha disaster which killed 167 workers on 6 July 1988 off the coast of Aberdeen is the world's deadliest ever oil rig accident. The UK PM Thatcher ignored the US angle.

Piper Alpha was owned by a consortium of foreign companies including Texaco and operated by Los Angeles-based Occidental, which sold off its UK interests soon after the disaster to concentrate on the US and Middle East. I they scuttled back to their own jurisiction something BP should have done.

In 1984 in Bhopal India a chemical plant partly owned and run by the US firm Union Carbide exploded killing  an estimated 8000 within two weeks.  Children deformed in utero by the  chemicals made at this plant were born many years afterwards. Union Carbide paid less than 1 billion dollsrs in 2014 terms in compensation. BP's bill is 50 billion and rising.

A few years later after this relatively tiny settlement Union Carbide pulled the usual American disappearing act and sold up and left.

BP still operates in the US.

The Obama interview was given to the BBC's fervent Europhile Sopel previously based in Brussels and put out by the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC employs a small army of jounalists can not one be found to critically assess Obama's motives?

The US wants to keep its UK poodle in its Brussels kennel for US big business interests. He cares as much about UK citizens as US industry cares about the dead of Piper Alpha and Bhopal. Think on that as you listen to Obama's fine words.

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Farage's UKIP failure. 61% of UK population wants to stay in the EU, 27% want to leave

These figures are from today's piece by Jeremy Warner in today's Telegraph. Click to read full piece.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11754173/Why-does-the-UK-love-the-EU-when-most-of-Europe-seems-to-hate-it.html

As Warner's headline says more and more Europeans want to leave the EU but more and more Brits want to stay in. This sums up Farage & UKIP's abject falure to connect with middle Britain in the middle of the worst ever Eurozone crisis.

His piece is based on a 500 sample size Isos Mori poll carried out mid June 2015 results below.

Q If there were a referendum now on whether Britain should stay in or get out of the European Union, how would you vote?
Base:AllAll expressing an opinion
 Stay inGet outDon't
know
Stay inGet out
 %%%%%
14-16 June 20156127126931
Base: Asked of half the sample (c.500 GB adults aged 18+)
Q Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?
Base:AllAll expressing an opinion
 YesNoDon't
know
Stay inGet out
 %%%%%
14-16 June 20156622127525
Base: Asked of half the sample (c.500 GB adults aged 18+)

Now 500 is not a large sample. General Eection polls use sample size of at least 1000 and as the graph, which I cannot copy, in Warners piece shows the results are quite volatile. Nevertheless the question reemains why in the middle of an existential Euro crisis do more Brits than ever want to stay in the EU? Warner does not really answer that question. I will try to.

UK citizens are in Andrew Neil's favourite word 'feart'. The BBC, the CBI, the political elite have been working hard to stoke up this fear of leaving the EU but as Roosovelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself. The EU need us more than we need the EU so we have nothing to be afraid of. Its human nature to prefer the known to the unknown but the known about the EU is awful ie the Greek tradgedy. Its difficult to envisage an unknown worse than what is now happening in Athens.

As always our best ally is the overweaning hubris of the EU political elite lead by that dodgy mid-European Juncker which I fear will lead the EU into a military conflict with Russia in the Ukraine. To parody Franco during the Spanish Civil war  " How many divisions does the Pope have?" Answer about as many as Herr Juncker, not a lot!

Add in the EU created Greek mess tipe to fall into Putin's lap and you can see why the Yanks are worried. Is Obama up to it? I doubt it. He is no Rooovelt.

The risks to UK citizens of life outside the EU are therefore a lot less than life in the EU.  Is that too difficult for you to articulate Mr Farage?


Monday 20 July 2015

Another UKIP Pseudo U turn

U turns are a UKIP/ Farage speciality. Resignations and sackings can be reversed at Farage's whim and now un not grubbing around after public money as Guido so eleoquently puts it . The latest concerns Short money, government funds for political parties with MPs, which Farage was eager to get his hands on but when Carswell pointed out it he would control any such funds Niogel threw one of his temper tantrums and on TV;s Question Time said UKIP would accept no money from HMG coffers, Nigel of course prefers to take his money from the EU where no audited accounts are krpt.

https://youtu.be/zP-c75eVnLc

It is being spun as the UKIP NEC reasserting its rights as the supreme ruler of UKIP. Ho, ho!

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/07/nigel-farage-overruled-ukip-nec-short-money/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Note that Farage's place man Crowther is to have joint control of the fund with Carswell. I wonder how that is going to work out.

http://order-order.com/2015/07/20/ukip-u-turn-on-short-money/#_@/YzCiTOXSdrO6AQ


Note also that UKIP unMP Reckless is also said to be employed  on public funds.

Confused? I am!

It all sounds like the final scene in Orwell's Animal Farm the political elite pigs and humans have a big party at public expense and the lesser animals, that's you and me, peek through the curtains and cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans or in our case UKIP and the Westminster political elite.

On more serious matters there is a good piece by Janen Ganesh in the FT on how the comrade  colleagues are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the EU colleague collleagues .

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bb6948e-2ede-11e5-91ac-a5e17d9b4cff.html#axzz3gSrKAP6H

Friday 17 July 2015

How many Jews work in the BBC?

Like Douglas Carswell I was not surprised that so many well paid employees of the BBC should sign a letter saying the BBC should be kept just as it is and presumably conitinue paying them huge amounts of licence paters money. These letters were organised by the BBC as Michael Palin confessed on the Victoria Derbyshire show. Click below to read:

http://order-order.com/2015/07/16/bbc-accidentally-reveal-hand-in-lobbying-letter/#_@/tp9p96RvfQ0aeQ

It does not surprise me that the BBC do this. I have often tried to get information out of the BBC by FOI requests only to be told that as journalists they have a waiver from the FOI Act which seems to be very wide ranging to cover anything the BBC does.

According to Guido this letter writing was organised by one Danny Cohen, the BBC Director of Television. This set me thinking.

In 1966 my ex RADA thespian cousin who later styled himself a Queen of the Beeb got a job there. He was good company and invited me that summer to one of his dinner parties and I asked how his new job was going. He replied fine but he was shocked at the large number of Jews in the BBC. I was shocked at this as well. Jews are very rare in Scotland so from time to time I have inquired of the BBC what the breakdown of their staff is by ethnicity. I would also like to know how many Scots, Irish and Welsh work for the BBC but such information it seems is not for the public to know.

Most other public,  government and international organisations publish a breakdown of their staff by race, religion, ethnicity etc so why is the BBC exempt?

Some organisations such as the UN must recruit on a strict quota system to ensure fair representation. It is worrying Auntie thinks she knows better.

PS

Hence we get the following

http://order-order.com/2015/07/21/bbc-avoids-questioning-janner/#_@/s96vdIVOytO6DA

So a suspected paedo is possibly not questioned because of his religion/ethnicity just as Rotherhamm did not pursue girl molesters so as not to offendd Moslems. Sick making.          

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Greece shows why only direct, Swiss style democracy delivers what us plebs want

Tsipras stood and was elected on a no austerity ticket by the Greek people. He made several trips to Brussels and was wined and dined by the Euro elite, liked it and realised he would lose all this if he did not do as Juncker and his gang wanted. What the Greeks voted for in their Referendum was deemed of no consequence. Its the problem with representative democracy. You get what is good for the representatives not what is good for the ordinary people. Thus we end up with a political elite whose only interest is to line their owen pockets. Have you ever seen a poor MP? I haven't. They all seem to have at least two houses maintained at our expense.

In the EU its made worse by the composition of the EU civil service with its preponderance of French bureaucrats closely followed by the German Sir Humphreys. We come well behind even the Italians in the bureaucrat stakes. Yes Minister showed the truth of how easy it is for permanent clever bureaucrats fluent in 4 languages with their own agenda to outwit here today and gone tomorrow thicko British politicians who can barely speak English.

The Swiss have the best solution. Politicians work for 3 months paid by the state and have to support themselves for the other 9 months. Any contentious measure must go to a national or cantonal referendum if there is a petition with a reasonable number of signatures demanding the people be consulted. Needless to say the Swiss do not have a political elite only equal citizens. Can anyone name the Swiss PM or Finance minister? Of course not, it is the direct will of the people that matters.

It is cheaper to 'fix' or should I say 'bribe' 650 MPs  or 750 MEPs than to bribe millions of voters with child tax credits or whatever. Then bingo these paid mercenaries can be turned loose on their own people and there is even no language barrier. The blame sticks to these mercenary nmonkeys whilst the EU organ grinders remain to play the same tune another day.

Every adult Swiss keeps in his flat a military rifle and amunition. This serves as a powerful deterrent to over mighty politicians. Rather than banning fox hunting with dogs Cameron should legitimise elite politician hunting as a civic duty until we reduce that vermin population to where they can no longer damage the UK. (See today's Telegraph cartoon.)

Adams cartoon, July 15

Tuesday 14 July 2015

A 20 year old's maiden speech shames our political elite

Mhairi Black who became an MP by defeating Douglas Alexander made an excellent speech. Farage who has failed seven times to get elected as MP and can't make a speech as good as that. Time for UKIP to seek a new, better and maybe female leader.

https://youtu.be/ZVgxzqeHYa8

Monday 13 July 2015

Weasel words from Farage on Mote after his gaoling

Farage on Mote,

UKIP party leader Nigel Farage said: "He was never a UKIP MEP I'm pleased to say. He was elected on a UKIP list.
"I found out very quickly and thought he was a wrong 'un so I kicked him out of the party, and this will be his second prison sentence so there you are.
"He never took his seat as a UKIP MEP. He was a member of UKIP, who was elected and I kicked him out even before he took his seat."

Mote was no2 on the UKIP South East slate in 2004 for the European elections of that year. Number one on that list was Nigel Farage. Does Farage think people are so gullible as to believe he knew nothing about Mote his no 2 on the list. At the next election, 2009 Farage clearly supported Andreasen as his no2 on the SE UKIP slate . She subsequently went off to join the Tories. In 2014 it was the same story with Janice Atkinson, no2 on the UKIP SE slate.

 She was expelled from UKIP for "bringing the party into disrepute" after her chief of staff was recorded apparently trying to inflate her expenses. 

On 16 June 2015, it was announced that Atkinson had joined a new group in the European Parliament, Europe of Nations and Freedom. The group consisted at its formation of 36 members. As well as Atkinson, the group is formed of 20 MEPs from the French National Front, and smaller numbers from Italy's Northern League, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Dutch Party for Freedom, Poland's Congress of the New Right and the Belgian Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest Party).

Essentially she has joined Marie LePen's French Front National group. A triumph for the EU federal dream of European political parties sans fromtieres.

So that's 3 elections and in each the UKIP no 2 candidate to Farage on the Souh East list has turned out to be less than loyal to UKIP. The common factor is of course Farage. Nobody gets on a UKIP slate  in any region, let alone Farage's South East region, without Farage's personal seal of approval. Pofessed loyalty to Farage not UKIP is the criterion all MEP candidates must pass.. I know, I was kicked of the SW list in 2009 by the Farage controlled UKIP NEC for criticising in an NEC meeting the Farage controlled UKIP candidate selection process and also UKIP;s financial probity. He used the UKIP traitor Bannerman to frame the charges against me. Bannerman went off to join the Tories and is now a Tory MEP. The NEC had no power to do this but such niceties matter not a jot in Farage's UKIP. After the illegal NEC decision Farage's crony the late Malcolm Wood the South West RO arranged to have this decision endorsed by the SWRCC. To her credit Julie Read, now a UKIP MEP, spoke against this at the SWRCC meeting on the grounds that it was ultra vires to oveturn my democratic election by SW members.

The EU of course acts like this all the time!

I have no doubt Mote never sat as a UKIP MEP but he was elected as a Farage endorsed MEP. Farage is dissembling to try an imply otherwise

Economics & Politics collide in Greece

The Greeks have been bludgeoned into submission by the Huns. Watch out Europhiles it could be us next. Germans either fawn at your feet or have their jackboot on your neck. There is no middle way with the Germans.

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has described it thus:

 "The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right," he wrote. "This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, complete destruction of national sovereignty, and no hope of relief.
"It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can’t accept; but even so, it’s a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for."

Among other elements of the EU proposals that outraged some commentators was a suggestion that some 50 billion euros ($56 billion) of Greek public assets be placed in an independent trust based in Luxembourg, out of reach of Greek politicians, the proceeds of which from privatisations would go directly to pay off debts.
Wow! That is a Juncker take over!
The hashtag appeared to originate on Sunday evening from Sandro Maccarrone, who describes himself as a physics teacher from Barcelona. He tweeted: "The Eurogroup proposal is a covert coup d'etat against the Greek people. #ThisIsACoup."
Pictures tweeted with the hashtag included Schaeuble branded with a swastika and the blue European flag with its circle of gold stars rearranged into the same Nazi symbol. Common, too, were images from Germany's World War Two occupation of Greece.
The EU stars have been rearranged into a Swastika.

This will generate a huge and well merited anti German backlash on a a democracy before money theme.
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But what will our Fuerher N Farage do?

This appears as his statement on Twitter
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Well what are you waiting for Nigel? There are plenty of flights to Athens you could get on and support the Greeks on the ground.

As the very clever Maria Margaronis says:

" How many times can the Germans be allowed to destroy Europe?"

Friday 10 July 2015

Just watched two sub standard UKIP MEPs

Thursday night on Question Time Louise Bours let UKIP down. I quote from Democracy Forum


"The Kathy Burke look-alike I saw wouldn't stop shouting across other panelists and even argued with and tried to shout down a questioner over nurses' training...

Sadly Louise Bours did not perform well, she was shouty and ill informed. For example she failed to counter the nurse who stated, rightly, that they do 'train on the wards'.

Louise Bours is a liability. The careful efforts of others wasted."

Today, Friday on the Andrew Neil show I watched William Legge aka the belted Earl of Dartmouth get Brillo'd for the same reason not knowing where the Libyan immigrants were coming from and also where the other groups trying to get into the EU originate from. Neil was clearly irked by Legge's abysmal ignorance of the facts.


It won't take much more media exposure of this pair for the whole of UKIP to get tarred with the same brush.

Thursday 9 July 2015

US pressure Germans to concede Greeks debt relief

Germany has conceded debt restructuring to the Greeks. Clearly this is a result of the US worries that in extremis the Greeks could turn to Putin with Greece falling into the Russian sphere of influence and give the Russians access to a Med port plus a Med terminal for Russian oil and gas.

The Yanks are also worried about the EU activities in the Ukraine provoking Putin. I know how much the EU apparatchiks hate kow towing to the US. How often did I hear, European not American solutions to European problems. The EU needs a dose of reality. Russia defeated Hitler and his Panzers and the will defeat Juncker and his pen pusher army with ease.

As the Telgraph puts it:


Greece news live: EU bows to Washington pressure for Greek debt relief after Draghi says Grexit 'hard to prevent'

Wednesday 8 July 2015

Excellent Farage speech in the EU talking shop

Click to see and hear his speech

https://youtu.be/ai43B588_co

This was an excellent summary yesterday by Farage of the Greek situation that any unbiased observer would not disagree with.

I agree with his comments on how the EU countries have not been forced together by the Euro, imposed by the EU elite against the will of the people, but now forcing the peoples of Europe apart. There is still a well justified resentment by the Balkans against the Germans because of their WWII  actions and if you go back a bit further to Napoleon French arrogance is also resented. The truth is they neither like or trust each other and every time one of the Brussels elite proclaims the non-existent benefits of the EU this distrust grows. People are not fools. They can see things for them are getting worse not better under the EU.

My real worry is that Franco Prussian arrogance will plunge us into another European war. Russia is a European power that won the last war in Europe. No amount of Brussel's hot air can change that and be in no doubt the Russian people are right behind Putin something you cannot say about Merkel, Holland or Cameron..

Monday 6 July 2015

How will the EU & the UK handle the Greek No?

Beware the Greeks bearing gifts was the quip used to terrorise the Romans and refers to the Trojan horse episode in Homer's Iliad. The Greek gift is the sacrifice hard line Finance minister Varoufakis who has just resigned to placate the colleagues but will it suffice?

The accepted EU tactic in such cases is to demand reruns of the vote until the plebs agree with the colleagues. That is impossible with the Greeks so the normally vocal colleagues are staying stumn until the Dr Frau gives them permission to speak.

Our great leaders Dave, Gideon and the Canadian dwarf have also been silent whilst they figure out how best to use the Greek result to terrify the UK populace into voting to stay in. In Animal Farm the pigs whose leader was called Napoleon had spin doctor pig called Squealer who was good at explaining black was white to the plebs. Unfortunately Dave & Gideon only have the cartoon Roland Rat to explain their EUphilia but I expect a torrent of FUD to emerge from all EU phile orifices soon on the lines of do you want to end up like the Greeks. Well Yes I do. They at least have a PM and Finance minister prepared to stand up for their country and not make their people EU slaves.

In the French translation of Animal Farm the chief pig's name had to be changed from Napoleon to something less insulting to the honour of France.

The answer to my title question is neither the colleagues or Dave have any idea what to do next.

Sunday 5 July 2015

Greeks vote No so its up yours EU

The Greeks are a proud people with a democratic tradition second to none. They have had enough of being kicked around by arrogant mid European politicians so its over to Dr Frau Merkel and Hollande and time for a little humility from that Franco Prussian pair.

Roland Rat the cartoon character leader of the keep the UK in the EU campaign has said of the Greeks ,"Let them go" but where will they go to? They might easily fall into Mr Putin's orbit a danger the US are well aware of but Merkel seems oblivious too. How many divisions do the Dranco Prussians have? Not hearly as many or as tough as Mr Putin's lot. the US are petrified of the prospect of a Russian military presence in the Med.

Merkel and Hollande are due to meet tomorrow. I do hope they will leave the ECB out of it. Its supposed to be an independent central bank. This is the acid test.

Fraser Nelson has spelt out some of the likely scenarios

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/07/the-greeks-have-voted-no-now-the-real-crisis-will-begin/

I think Draghi will quietly continue to support Greek banks under some 'special' deal for a couple of weeks to allow time for the politicos to come to their senses and offer a big haircut on Greek debt. If they don't then their beloved Euro is doomed and the Russians will have the Med base they have always wanted since the days of rg Czars.

Saturday 4 July 2015

How will the Greeks vote in their Referendum?

I am all for referendums. The Europhile political elite hate them so much they clearly must be a good thing for us democracy loving plebs.

In economic terms the Greeks are between a rock and a hard place or as Odysseus found between Scylla and Charybdis as BoJo might say. Their real choice is between freedom and EU slavery. For a Scot brought up on the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 on which 450 years later the American Declaration of Independence was modeled there can only be one choice, freedom.

But will there be a referendum or will it be pulled at the 11th hour? We will soon know.

Sunday 5th July PS

EU warns of Armageddon if Greek voters reject terms


Thats from todays Sunday Telegraph

That's how to terrify the plebs!


A Greek lady interviewed this morning summed it up thus:

If I vote Yes to the EU proposals then  I, my children and grandchildren will simply be bonded slaves of the EU in perpetuity.

That is the choice we face also, free men or bonded slaves of a self perpetuating EU political elite.

Friday 3 July 2015

What the French can teach us about education and law

Napoleon was a very great man not just on the battlefield but in his reforms to French law and education. He deemed that religion should have no place in French education and French schools have been secular ever since. Napoleon did it to preserve the rights of man and equality embedded in the French revolution. This has enabled the French to avoid the problems we are now having with Muslim schools, burkas, veils etc. Its Non! No ifs buts or maybes to paraphrase PM Dave.

We cannot do the same because we gave rights to religous groups to run their own schools and instill their own religous beliefs in the children attending these schools taught by teachers of that same religion. This all started with the Church schools attached to the local churches around 1400 and was pretty harmless when everyone was a Catholic.It started to go wrong when the faults of the Catholic church were so manifest and many that Protestantism arose and the wealth of the church was so obscene that Henry VIII destroyed the abbeys etc to get his hands on their wealth. Had the church followed the teachings of Jesus they would have given it all to the poor but they did not, and there the problems started to multiply.

The Church of England run by the monarch was set up as a compliant pseudo religion but the Catholics had to be kept out of the monarchy, hence we ended up with the Hanoverians as our monarchs. The Catholics understanably got a bit miffed at this, agitated for reform culminating in the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 which allowed Catholics to become MPs and repealed the Test Acts that were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and Nonconformists.

English Catholic schools had been forced to move abroad but started to come back in the early 1800s. These were largely fee paying public schools like Downside available only to the wealthy so was of no benefit to ordinary Catholics. I quote from a Catholic Education Service document,

In 1847 a unique partnership was agreed with the State, and Catholic Poor-School Committee was established by the bishops of England and Wales (at that time still vicars-apostolic), to represent them collectively and to focus on the promotion of Catholic elementary education for the growing Catholic population, particularly fuelled by immigration in the big cities and industrial areas.
 

History has a great way of repeating itself! Irish Catholic immigrant labour was imported from the early 1800s  to fuel industrialists insatiable demand for cheap labour to work in their factories and fatten their profits. We of course are facing the same problem today except the majority of immigrants are now Moslems imported for the same reasons. (There are a smaller number of Polish RCs for which the local Catholic churches are extremely grateful.) The Moslems are now agitating for their own schools which given what has been granted to the Catholics we cannot logically refuse unless we ban all religion in schools.

The Jews have had their own schools since around 1850 although wealthier Jews prefer to send their children to Eton etc. Currently around 60% of Jewish children attend Jewish schools which I believe also take some Gentiles and Muslims.

More worrying is the precedent set by Jewish Beth Din courts. I quote from the Independent,

Jewish Beth Din courts have in fact been operating in the UK for more than a century and are frequently used – particularly by the Orthodox community -– to solve civil disputes. Under British civil law a third party can be used to resolve a dispute as long as both sides agree to the arbitration. They cannot, however, replace civil law. Critics say that because sharia and halakha (Jewish law) uses religious texts to define their practice they are often biased against women.

So when the Muslims want to use Sharia law we find again we have granted these rights to Jews so it will be difficult to refuse the same to Muslims.

The French from Napoleon see this far more logically. Hence they have banned burkas etc in public places and ban religion from schools. We should do the same. Endless UK fudge will lead to disaster. The problem like the third Heathrow runway is there are a significant number of influential Catholics and Jews who will fight against this but the problems will really mount when we have an even larger number of influential Islamics demanding parity with Catholics and Jews.

Thursday 2 July 2015

EU bullying of the Greeks is a consequence of Greek loss of sovereignty

The lessons for the UK are plain to see. The Europhile weasel words that giving up our sovereignty will be good for us is now exposed as a lie. Loss of control of your currency is equally bad and hands control of your countries finances to Juncker and his dodgy mid-European cronies that they call colleagues.

The Greeks wanted into the Euro to stop the rampant inflation they had with the drachma. They are now finding that mass unemployment and austerity is worse than inflation. But the Greeks are not the only people to be lured down this primrose path. We in the UK, did exactly the same thing for the same reasons when Heath finding he could not run the UK handed control of our country to Brussels as being preferable to having our country run by the trade unions. Better I would say to have our country run by British trade unionists that came from our working class than the Franco Prussion undemocratic, unelwected political elite.

This is still the attitude in England. Look at Democracy Forum to see the proliferation of anti leftie comments. The UK working class have always been patriots. Those who have betrayed our country, Philby, Burgess, MacClean etc came from the Old Etonian dominated political elite. At the top of that pyramid there is Betty von Battenburg  with more German blood than Anglo Saxon who sabotaged the SNP referendum and is now selling us out to the EU and her husband's numerous  German cousins. Diana Spencer said just before she tragically died , "The Germans got me". She knew what the von Battenburgs were.

Its not the working class that is selling us down the river to the EU its our leaders, political, religous, military and cultural. Nothing short of revolution will free as. The French had theirs in the late 18th century, the Russians theirs in the early 20th century time for us to have ours and lets finish the job Cromwell started in the mid 17th century but never finished.

Wednesday 1 July 2015

UKIP & Farage have a credibility problem

Or to put it in the common vernacular following the Farage resigns then unresigns saga, Evans is fired and then unfired. No sensible person can then believe a word UKIP says. That is a huge self inflicted problem for a party and a party leader. I have no doubt both of these originate with Farage who has the strange belief that to put the prefix 'un' in front of an action reverses the action. I first came across this strange use of language at an NEC meeting about 6 years ago when Farage threatened to have a UKIP member 'unwhipped'. I did point out to Farage that UKIP did not have a whipping system like a  traditional political party at that time. Farage, supported by his sycos, simply ploughed on ignoring the bleeding obvious. Perhaps Ms Whiplash could tell us what unwhipping is?.

So when some Faragista posts a video clip of Nigel recommending UKIP not to take the Short money for party funding click below to watch and claim this makes Farage a man you can trust I say Ho Hum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-c75eVnLc&app=desktop

Note the use of the weasel words "My recommendation" that will enable Farage to slide out of this commitment and blame it on the UKIP NEC which he of course 100% controls.

Carswell of course has already said he will not take the 'Short' money. He would then have to appoint Farage approved Faragista staff on that money in his office. Carswell is no fool besides he knows how stupid and incompetent most Faragistas are. Saying I agree with Nigel often and loudly is all that is needed to secure preferment in UKIP.

Farage and his MEPs have of course no problems themselves about taking EU money. Unfortunately Farage has the bad habit of losing his MEPs to other parties. I wonder why? Bashir seems to have joined the Tories and Atkinson Miss LePen's French Front National. Its early days yet and I expect many more UKIP MEP defections before the next 2019 Euro elections.

Watch what Farage does with his own dosh and don't fall for his bullshit talk with your hard earned money.