They’re at it again

By tomtom

The Europhile Kids - Now it’s the Dave ‘n’ Ken Show

   

How much longer do we have to put up with these plonkers telling us we need to be in the EU to have influence on the world stage. They are so wrong!  Nafta, Efta, they're made up of individual countries, coming together to trade, Yes?

  So when Rt. Hon. MP Clarke claims we wouldn't be talking about free trade with the USA and Canada were it not for the EU, he is as usual spouting rubbish in support of his Europhile views.  Seems he's had a head to head with Dave who thinks he will be an influence on the world stage only via the EU.

  But we were a member of Efta long before PM Heath conned a generation into voting for membership of the Europen Economic Community.  Don't they understand why we call this country Great Britain. We can stand on our own feet make our own laws grow our own food and trade the world on our own terms.

  We have no need of Europe and these idiot Eurocrats trying to drag us down to their level. But so long as leading politicians espouse the views of this pair of plonkers, we'll be saddled with all this EU red tape and we've had enough of it.

 Watch this space, I'll be back!

 Tom. 

Will Dave ever really Geddit?

Methinks not

By sweeping away bureaucracy we’ll help trade to flow freely across the world, adding money to economies globally, supporting business and creating jobs. That will make everyone better off, including the world’s poorest people who need the most help – reads the latest missive from Dave’s desk in10 Downing St.

  

  Good idea Dave, so how about sweeping away the bureaucracy that is plaguing every waking hour of our daily grind from the unelected elite. The Eurocrats who think we would be good Europeans if only we’d bow and scrape to every nuance of this elite band of EU Busybodies, who deign to control us in autonomy. Sweep some of that away and we might begin to believe you are running this small island and not just trumpeting your ideas on the world stage, as you constantly remind us.

  

  No one in this country would turn their back on the poorest in the world but charity begins at home. Though with a silver spoon in your mouth and the advantage of a public school education you probably have no idea what it’s like in our street.

  

  By any measure Dave if you carry on the same way for the next couple of years as you have for the past three. You’ll be a dead duck as far as winning the next election goes. Not a prayer can help you nor will  proclaiming your credentials on a world stage, for never has a PM been so out of touch with mainstream sentiment, in respect of how Joe Sixpack thinks when it comes to Europe and what is happening here good old Blighty.

  

  The Brits are up to the back teeth with European dogma and it gets worse by the day. Even the founding fathers at one time or another admitted the people had to be led blindfold by the hand, for they’d never understand the merit of being a good European. From what I’ve seen of your tenure of the highest office in the land since you took over, you are firmly in that camp too.

  Maybe we don’t understand the merits, but we certainly understand the demerits. They’re writ large in 6ft letters across the entrance to the Eurotunnel: (Abandon hope all ye who enter here).

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.

Is a New Glass/Steagall act the Answer?

Liam Halligan reckons it is and we all know who abandoned it don't we Mr Clinton.

Dear Mr Halligan,

For all your banging on about the re-introduction of the Glass/Steagall Act. It does not not need a high flying economist to see what the abandonment of this legislation did to the world of high and low finance. since '86. Though what followed probably had more to do with the oil shock of '73 when 3gallons of petrol cost £1.00 and £2.00 took me all the way to Commercial Street and back - 260 miles, to replenish the stock for my Shirt Stall on our Open Market. 

That Glass/Steagall needs to be re-introduced is staring everybody in the face. But the world at large seems to be stunned by the audacity of these intrepid souls the Fractional Reserve Bankers. These people with nothing more in mind, than to fill their boots and clip-clop off into the sunset. We have no need of these bandits to secure our financial future. All it has done is jack up the price of every friggin' commodity known to man.

While back in the 1960s, setting out to make a mark in the world on the princely wage of £13-7s-6d/week, I can state categorically that I live little differently today. The only accoutrements now that were not even invented then, were a microwave oven, a computer and a colour TV.

The average mortgage then was around £2,500 repayable at around £13.00/month. While the average weekly wage is a now a stratospheric £463 including bonuses and the simple question is: Exactly who is any better off for it? Is an increment of £450/week over 50years the price of developing these 3 items?

In addition to which, we even had a pension system that was working, before the politicians who didn’t have a clue started grabbing chunks of it to cling on to power and we suffered 13 years of the disastrous Blair/Brown Tragedy of Errors. So the real question here is who is conning us now? Is it the politicians or the bankers or are they in cahoots to make sure it sticks?

Answers on the back of  a 10/- shilling first class stamp. 

Best regards

Tom.