Ultimatum for UK on Prisoner Voting Rights from the European Court of Human Rights

The Gauntlet's down, time for an EU in or Out Referendum Dave

Do we need six months of  Make Your Mind Up Time? 

Dave’s physically sick as the European Court of Human Rights issues a six month ultimatum on Prisoner Voting Rights. No need to throw up Dave, all it needs is another question on the ballot paper of the AV referendum already agreed, just a simple yes or no will do.

  

  Stone me, what did he expect? The European Court of Human Rights owes no allegiance to commonsense. In crazy ruling after crazy ruling it spits in the face of Anglo-Saxon realism. Especially in this particular instance as it tries to overturn our parliament. This bogus outfit exists only at the behest of Brussels, to hide the peccadilloes of legions of nearly men and women, behind a smokescreen of bogus intent and fraud and to subvert the sovereign rights of our Westminster Parliament.

  How much longer do we need to travel in this parallel universe, staffed by people and so-called judges, chosen by no one knows who, for reasons that have yet to be exposed. It cannot go on like this, for we have an inalienable right to shape the society in which we live. It is a sovereign right and this court is out to usurp it. We need to end this seemingly insatiable assault on our sovereignty.

  As befits my continuing war on European Union I post herewith the statements and warnings of astute politicians down the ages as this Euro Dreamworld emerged into the harsh light of day to be visited on nations irrespective of the wishes of the public at large in the name of who knows what.

  From Lord Palmerston on:- 1784 – 1865.  Who stated quite explicitly:-  "Only three men in Europe have understood the Schleswig Holstein (West Lothian) question, and of these three, the Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Consort is dead, a Danish Statesman unnamed is in an asylum, and I myself have forgotten."

  It is entirely possible that you have little or no idea what has been signed away in your name by successive UK governments, since we joined the European Economic Community in 1973 Various quotes by our MPs, (mostly men I might add though you cannot discount Lady Thatcher who realised long before any of her party and particularly those responsible for our entry into the EEC and subsequent negotiations) . . . exactly what was on the menu.

  

To really understand what has gone on during the last fifty years we need to go back to the early days:

 1963 in fact when the then EEC was dominated by France's General de Gaulle. A deal was struck with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - The Treaty of Elysée (January 1963)

 Konrad Adenauer:- 1876 - 1965 said:-  "Essentially this EEC is a trade- off; West Germany will gain international 'rehabilitation' and it will open up the market to German goods. France will have political leadership and secure financial support for French agricultural products." In essence the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was created.

This we now know is a pact that has dogged the reformation and reconstruction of EEC ever since, as it morphed into the European Union. Throughout this entire period of EEC/EU conception and development; this (CAP) has been the main stumbling block, as subsequent modifying legislation has been incorporated into the various treaties till they arrived at the ultimate defining Lisbon Treaty, the Constitution that dare not speak its name. 

 As far back as the early eighteen hundreds Lord Palmerston had no doubts about which side our bread was buttered:-

Jean Monnet:- 1888 - 1979 said:-  "Europe's nations should be guided towards a super-state without people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to a Federal Super State."

Peter Thorneycroft, British MP:- 1947 said:-  "No government dependent on a democratic vote; could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifice which an adequate European Plan must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences. "Not asked, for it involves changes which they may not at first be capable of recognising, as advantages."

 Although the statements listed above, which no one could be blamed for believing at the time, were merely statements of intent based on the best available evidence. It has become alarmingly clear that over the following decades, up to the present day, these statements bear out the original intent in ways that have been long forgotten. It confirms however, all that is happening as the people behind this movement push for the creation of a Federal United States of Europe in the face of overwhelming disdain from the electorate at large. No votes in France, Holland and Ireland are being overturned in national parliaments. That's the kind of dictatorship we fought to defeat in two World Wars.

So whoever or whatever are the forces behind this movement, to bind us all into a constitution by default, they must be defeated. Ireland, France and Holland have shown us the way and the democratic will of the people must prevail. Sadly I have to report that my bid to fight this from the inside, as an MEP failed miserably. So the fight goes on to the next UK Parliamentary Election for an opportunity to introduce a Private Member's Bill and an end this Euro Misery forever.

Watch this space, I'll be back!

Tom.

    

Nick’s a winner in my book

What he did took courage and foresight

It’s not often I’d be inclined to spring to the defence of a Lib-Dem, but Nick Clegg has been pilloried by all and sundry for everything from broken promises to traitorous endeavour, for not helping the boy Gordie to carry-on crucifying us on his altar of hubris. But in the face of a slanted rich bitch interview, I am moved to restore a bit of  balance.

  What Nick did in helping to create the Coalition probably saved our bacon in more ways than one. For it got the international shylocks off our back and assured them we could find the cash to pay their juice, by making all the necessary noises they needed to hear. In addition, it took great courage and foresight.

  Whilst the failed politicians of new Labour could only stand on the by-lines carping at anything and everything they’d failed to understand in respect of balancing our national books. Had Nick taken notice of them, we’d have been in a helluva worse mess, without this redistribution of the deficit.  So instead of banging on about him being a loser we should be preparing a medal as big as a frying pan, for he deserves nothing less.

  But this apart, is anyone really interested in what a mega-rich playgirl has to bitch about or where she might have been in the pecking order, without daddy’s billions. 

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

 Tom.

So the Spaniards reckon they do not need a baleout

Tell me another one, just like the other one

How many times have we heard that one before, in modern times probably as far back as the day when Denis Healey as Britain's Chancellor went cap in hand to the IMF. Since 2007 as the credit crunch became a fact of life, we've heard it in most of the basket case economies of the EU and the UK very nearly became the daddy of all time, as the deficit deniers looked for a way to cling on to power.

  With the advent of a common currency for Europe, the Euro was born on the back of a stringent dictat, that no participant should borrow more than 3% of its GDP. Then they all went on their merry way bending the rules to suit themselves, in the mistaken belief that the Euro was bigger than the markets and if they got into trouble the rest of the Europhiles would bale them out.

  Never in modern times has anyone tried to buck the market in this way and so developed a battle of wits, the like of which we watch and wonder, as we await the final outcome. Inevitably it becomes clearer by the day, as the founding fathers of the Euro wriggle and squirm in their hubris and defiance of the rudiments of accepted monetary disciplines practised by the Money Markets, that a denouement is approaching.

   There will of course only ever be one winner and it is unlikely to be the ECB, when those who will not see are led by the nose, as sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

Remember where you read it first and watch this space, I'll be back!

Tom.



Digger on the Ropes

Now for a sensible answer to thorny problem

As just 5% of viewers back the Digger’s takeover of BSkyB and the consequent further erosion of the televiewing available FREE TO AIR, a new solution is called for.

What baffles me most of all though, is the way people cough up £30+/month subscriptions on top of the TV licensing fee  to watch puerile advertising slogans. It’s bad enough having to suffer it on Freeview, as the big switchover takes off.

So I’ve conceived a cunning plan. We bring the TV licensing fee now going to the BBC into line for all renewals from 1st Jan 2012 then turn the Beeb into a subscription channel using the TV licensing fee to give the viewer a choice of which service they wish to view.

It needs a strict ceiling on what a subscription channel can charge, so we finish up with a level playing field and a wide variety of services to choose from.

It makes no sense to pay a licence fee and a further subscription on top to watch Commercial Satellite Subscription channels and this would be an appropriate answer to those fearful of too much TV broadcasting being concentrated in the hands of one big spender.

The programming studios can then be floated off as purely commercial, film, news, entertainment and sporting venue production companies (IPOs -If you see Syd tell him) and all transmission accomplished via satellite.

Job Done and remember where you read it first?

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.

 

EU time to wave it goodbye?

                                                The People’s Pledge

BBC partly funded by EU, wrote a recent blog commentator, on a Daniel Hannan Blog? That's a new one on me, I have to admit. But with an income approaching £3.5 Bn the Beeb should be able to move at warp speed to lead the TV world, if it was doing the things it was set up to achieve, instead trying to be the conscience of a left wing Utopian Society. But it's bogged down by all kinds of introspective claptrap, to the extent that it appears not to have any idea if it's coming or going.

Surely it’s time to put it out of its misery and compel it to compete in the real world, as a subscription channel without the compulsion. Then we'd really see how much of this £3.5Bn it could justify on the basis of rating figures.

Whatever, it's no kind of argument for being hamstrung by an EU which is dead set on dragging us down to their level. It's time to get out of this failed experiment that’s well past its sell by date. The only way is out, in much the same way as the best thing that came out of Scotland was the road to England. (circa 1707, the Act of Union).

We led the world by example and we can do so again by regaining our Independence. We have to stand on our own feet doing the things we do best, the four Fs - Farming, Fishing, Finance and Free Trade, where the only way is UP.

Bring on the IN or OUT referendum Dave,

You know it makes sense and watch this space, cos I'm watchin' you!

Tom.

An Economist at the Bank of England

 Must have something of significance to say, in respect of our present situation 

The claim to have saved us from a great depression rings a bit hollow, for if that is the case, as the Governor of the Bank of England lays claim to it in today’s Telegraph interview. Why could he not have saved us from the deficit deniers of New Labour as well? An economist at the BoE in fact, says all I need to know about why the BoE can lay no claim to being fit any purpose, other than in the interests of Bankers per se. That a person who knows nothing of the vagaries of being in business, on his own account, should oversee the nation’s financial health, could be precisely why we are in this mess.

  Another anomaly that springs to mind almost immediately is why an appointee to this position should be subservient to the Chancellor to the extent that the Chancellor alone should have the power to decide who governs the Bank and the uncertainty which followed his indecision and dithering over whether continuum was in his own interest.

  Subservience by the Bank it was, which contributed largely to the enormous £3 trillion national debt, bequeathed to future generations by our erstwhile ultimate Boom and Bust deniers of all time. A liability for future generations to paydown. What also beggar’s belief in no small way, is how the separation of various liabilities into off-balance sheet accounts was allowed to go on unchecked, when Chancellor Brown was piling up liabilities, twenty five years into the future.

  It smacks of the kind of thing the Emperors of Enron used in their special entity vehicle ruse, which allowed them to restate false profits as a sop to the markets, to massage the share price by several hundred percent. About the only difference being, that Enron did not have the taxpaying public as their lender of last resort and In the end the market found them out, as inevitably it always will in any free market society.

  In this instance however, the PFI industry which grew and was shaped on the Enron principle, will however in the midst of the debacle that has arisen over this profligate spending, have the ultimate backstop. The taxpayer is liable in respect of returns on their investment. No doubt these questionable assets have been sliced and diced by the money market's  financial engineers and bearing in mind the lender of last resort principle with the taxpayer’s in harness they are unlikely to be defaulted on.

 Well not least in the way that AIG’s Cassano bonds imploded, to call in the Credit Default Obligations (CDOs) issued by AIG without the wherewithal to cover the substantial claims that arose. It's always possible of course that a nation can default on sovereign debt. It has happened in the past in many second and third world countries, but in what is probably the fourth most economically developed nation in the world behind the USA, Japan & China, not forgetting of course the export driven economy of Germany.

  Though the Germans are still recovering from being re-united East & West and the lorry loads of Dmarks they ferried to the East when they exchanged their Dmarks for Ostmarks one for one, when the true exchange rate was closer to twelve to one or indeed the handfuls of Begrűssengeld (Welcoming Money) 250 Dmarks to anyone who produced an East German Passport at the counter of a West German Bank on weekend after weekend, in mid to late ’89 as they waved them all over, in their bid to demolish the Berlin Wall.      

  There have been numerous attempts over the period from the end of WWII to the present where an incoming Labour administration has set about trying to disenfranchise the nobility which they so fervently despise. In part this has to be driven by the fact that a huge proportion of this present day Labour Party; are so beloved of the Fabian Society Dictat.

 So it might be relevant here to look at the scenery through a different optical contraption, more suited to the myopia of the thirty to sixty odd percent of the electorate who do not vote. But that is for another piece in a future blog. For I have no intention to bore the pants of anyone who may venture this way. My object is merely to acquaint the public at large, with a few pertinent facts they may have overlooked.

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.

Barnsley Central an astonishing result for UKIP

They managed at last, to beat the BNP

But what exactly were the electorate of Barnsley Central trying to tell us. Well not exactly the entire electorate just the 37% who bothered to turn out and vote.  Do they want more of the two Ed’s ridiculous policies? It beggars belief that so many people can fall for their guff again and again. There can be no case for yet more of the stuff that got us into this diabolical mess. Though perhaps in Barnsley Central, they don’t think it’s real money, especially when it comes down to rolling the printing presses in Threadneedle Street.

   With a turnout of 37% though it must say a lot about why Barnsley Central is one of the poorest constituencies in the UK. You could be forgiven for thinking after the profligacy of the Blair/Brown years a little largesse might have been scattered on this outpost of poverty in the new Labour explosion of spending, which racked up a triple trillion of national debt, the biggest ever in our history. To be paid off by this and several future generations.

  It could be the economics of all this is beyond the Labour voters of Barnsley. It’s quite probably home to a big majority of client state participants, who depend on benefits for their poverty stricken lifestyle. Though it's hard to envision what an Army Officer turned politician can do about all this. The last one I ran into was cringe making, he thought he was still in battle dress.  

  Nevertheless it’s no reason to give up hope, for once the redistribution of the huge Labour deficit is carried through and the bold measures Big Eric is putting in place for local accountability. It might even sink in at Barnsley, that the way forward for Old Perfy Alby (that’s Perfidious Albion for the uninitiated) is now in safe hands.

  It is definitely not via a re-incarnation of new Labour at the hands of the two Eds with their tax ‘n’ spend mantra in full swing again. For on the available evidence, it looks like it did the good folk of Barnsley little good, the last time round.

Watch this space, I’ll be back,

Tom.