tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post8799579160119493696..comments2023-11-02T04:40:21.698-07:00Comments on Dr. Eric Edmond's Blog: A prediction of the Eastleigh resultEric Edmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-34229584166094126742013-03-01T03:14:37.881-08:002013-03-01T03:14:37.881-08:00Excellent result and candidate. Did much better th...Excellent result and candidate. Did much better than I anticipated.<br />No need for any deals with the Conservatives now-just take them over.Mike Bridgemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-80677362944910012362013-03-01T01:42:37.487-08:002013-03-01T01:42:37.487-08:00I should have put my money on !
"As my stable...I should have put my money on !<br />"As my stable owner said to banker friends when FRANKEL had his last race at ODDS-ON. Put everything you can spare on him. It will be the easiest money you have ever made.<br />Ditto the LIB-DEMS. Hold your nose and bet it !"<br /><br />Like FRANKEL, the Lib-Dems had a scare but came through.<br /><br />All credit to the UKIP team and the superb candidate. Humble but able - rare quality.<br /><br />Cameron is toast !ALAN WOODnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-61626649439063359102013-02-28T11:56:41.729-08:002013-02-28T11:56:41.729-08:00Alan,
I agree with your points 1,2 & 3. I thi...Alan,<br /><br />I agree with your points 1,2 & 3. I think we are in a real bind. Europe is a dimishing force economically, politically, militarily and every other field. I have no doubt we would be best to follow the Swiss model including strict neutrality.<br /><br />The immediate danger is North Korea which has a 1000 year history of wars with Japan. More dangerous than Iran.<br /><br />EricEric Edmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-54557592660430663842013-02-28T09:19:39.700-08:002013-02-28T09:19:39.700-08:00It was always Farage and Malcolm Wood's desire...It was always Farage and Malcolm Wood's desire to terrorise the Conservative Party into adopting the UKIP position of leaving the EU.<br />It would appear that the desire is to get a binding referendum on IN/OUT and that putting the CONS under pressure will achieve that<br /><br />There are flaws in that argument :-<br />1. As Dr. Richard North points out, that referendum could go against the outers.<br />2. The CONS can promise what they like but may not win the next election.<br />3. Labour can trump that by promising a referendum, but reneging on it, or having to form a coalition with the LIBDEMS who would veto a referendum as not in their manifesto.<br /><br />Under any circumstances Farage will probably stay an MEP until he has filled his coffers by 2019.<br /><br />The tragedy is that the only way out is with the other two scenarios postulated by Farage himself; that UKIP take us out by winning a UK Parliamentary election or that the EU implodes.<br /><br />The unspoken scenario is that the wealth and cunning of the Chinese overwhelms the Western Alliance of USA, EU & Japan economically and possibly by threat. We would be out of the EU then but subservient to a new and cruel master. The Chinese have scores to settle.ALAN WOODnoreply@blogger.com