These are the visible members. More dangerous are the sleepers. They are like Burgess and Maclean hidden deep in the UK in Governments main offices of state, HMT and the FCO. Challenging them is to question the integrity of our Rolls Royce civil service. They have become steadily more brazen culminating in oily Olly Robbins who now feels so protected that he openly challenges his political master and DD and openly serves his true master the EU.
Tory boy Pierce describes this in an excellent Daily Mail piece, click below to read,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5672413/Why-earth-lifelong-Europhile-Brussels-negotiator.html
Its a fantastic piece and deserves to be read in full. I give one quote:
"In some EU meetings Robbins would urge Eurocrats to ignore the political noise in Westminster and listen to him, or to Mrs May, often failing to mention Davis altogether.
At one particular meeting, Robbins even suggested that he, and not Davis, should be the opposite number to Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator.
Word of his deviousness got back to Davis.
It was one provocation too far for an exasperated Davis, another imposing six footer, who bluntly reminded Robbins who was in charge of policy.
Davis made clear that Robbins was his ‘sherpa’, preparing the ‘mountaineers to get to base camp before they tackle the summit’ – and most definitely not the team leader.
Last September, the unhappy relationship came to an end when Robbins was moved into the Cabinet Office, which has a connecting corridor to No 10, as May’s Europe adviser. "
The relationship between May & Robbins is likened to that between Thatcher and Alan Walters.This is getting pretty close to the bone and when it was put to fat boy Boulton on his all out politics programme this morning almost caused an explosion by the tubby one. So it must be true.
I also find it close the Jim Hacker Sir Humphrey relationship if you remember the episode where Jim locked Sir H out of no 10.
Barnier believes in the EU as does his whole team. Robbins like behaviour would earn a rapid visit to Madame Guillotine.
I do not see how we Brexiteers can possibly win when most of our team are clearly playing for Barnier.
Its just not cricket!
Good tweet from Carswell today
Genuinely amazed that almost two years after referendum there are unelected grandees brazenly trying to veto leaving the EU. Awful awful people. Britain needs fundamental change to free us from these mediocrities and their sense of self importance
As Henry II might have said , "Who will rid me of these useless Lords?"
Good tweet from Carswell today
Genuinely amazed that almost two years after referendum there are unelected grandees brazenly trying to veto leaving the EU. Awful awful people. Britain needs fundamental change to free us from these mediocrities and their sense of self importance
As Henry II might have said , "Who will rid me of these useless Lords?"
5 comments:
I once suggested in an email to UKIP that they adopted a policy to outlaw political involvement if he/she is a member of a secret society or organisation. The response I received was swift and detailed to the effect of we cannot do that. I was certain that I hit a raw nerve and that secret handshakes were alive and well within UKIP.
How many people have heard of Common Purpose? Sadly not many but here we have another shadowy organisation in the heart of all branches of our society.
Sorry, if you are a politician you should have one master, the electorate. The UK is ripe for a purge.
The EU have been expert at buying influence in the UK. Our once beloved BBC is a perfect example.
Not sure if we should name this movement a fifth column but I do know staying in the Customs Union means staying in the EU.
I once suggested in an email to UKIP that they adopted a policy to outlaw political involvement if he/she is a member of a secret society or organisation. The response I received was swift and detailed to the effect of we cannot do that. I was certain that I hit a raw nerve and that secret handshakes were alive and well within UKIP.
How many people have heard of Common Purpose? Sadly not many but here we have another shadowy organisation in the heart of all branches of our society.
Sorry, if you are a politician you should have one master, the electorate. The UK is ripe for a purge.
The EU have been expert at buying influence in the UK. Our once beloved BBC is a perfect example.
Not sure if we should name this movement a fifth column but I do know staying in the Customs Union means staying in the EU.
The purge our system needs are the six demands advocated by The Harrogate Agenda which to date has not been been bettered.
Around 1994 UKIP was just beginning and we had a ready-made grievance which appeared to demonstrate that the whole parliamentary system was a charade to obscure the EU's power over us. The Conservative government had introduced VAT on domestic fuel. Parliament then debated the matter along traditional left/right lines, completely missing the EU dimension. I recall Dennis Skinner, a noted Eurosceptic, claiming that the wicked evil Tories wanted to freeze the pensioners to death! The leadership of the Labour Party promised that, if elected, they would repeal the tax. Now, to us new UKIPers, this proved the whole thing was a put-up job to give an illusion of democracy behind which the EU agenda was advanced. We knew that, once a competence had been surrendered to the EU,,it could never return. VAT was an EU tax, both parties were committed to the EU and the opposition was allowed to get away with a bare-faced lie. It seemed to us as if every single MP must be complicit, or st least acquiescent, in the deceit.
We made as much fuss as we could but UKIP was tiny in those days and the best we achieved was a few letters in local papers - of which no MPs ( as far as I know) took any inotice.
No doubt a few MPs and ministers did know the truth and keep quiet about it but,,over the years I came to realise that the large majority were simply ignorant and quite happy in their ignorance. I think they mostly still are, as evidenced by the recent incredibly I'll-informed debate on the Customs Union.
In 1994 what we saw convinced us of a massive,,all-encompassing parliamentary conspiracy. Over the years it became apparent that there were relatively few out and out euro-federalists and a great majority who just went with the flow and the status quo. The MPs most useful,to the EU project were those who would make anti EU speeches to,great applause and then go and vote obediently for the next treaty. They gave false hope to good people and maintained the illusion that Parliament was representing them. I remember asking one well-known speechifying supposed Eurosceptic why he had obediently voted for, I think, the Nice Treaty. He said because it saved him much unpleasantness and that for me to,ask such a question just showed that I did not understand how Parliament worked.
So, I think that even now there will still be a majority of the manipulated with a minority of very smooth manipulators trying to steer things their way.
Mr Spalton,
I agree.
The big lies came from Heath in 72/73 when he frequently stated that in joining the Common Market we would not be giving up any of our sovereignty.
Maxwell Fyfe, Earl Kilmuir, one of Macmillan's law officers had written in the late 50s that joining the Common Market would eventually reduce our parliament to parish council status. He was right.
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