I copy and paste this article that I am told was published in the Guardian, 26 Oct 2009, because I cannot click it up now and assume it has been removed from their site. But the assertions here are important for the future of my country so it is important enough for this repeat publishing.
Subject: Ukip threat to David Cameron's election majority
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/25/ukip-cameron-election- threat
Ukip threat to David Cameron's election majority. Tories could lose out in 50 marginals over Lisbon referendum pledge * Gaby Hinsliff, political editor, and Henry McDonald * The Observer, Sunday 25 October 2009
David Cameron could be denied up to 50 MPs at the next election because of the United Kingdom Independence party (Ukip) splitting the Conservative vote, Labour party analysis suggests.
Ukip plans to try to divide the party by standing in marginal seats against Tory candidates who fail to back a referendum on the Lisbon treaty in all circumstances. Cameron refuses to say whether he would offer a referendum if the treaty were ratified, insisting merely that he "will not let the matter rest".
A private analysis by Labour strategists suggests that in marginal constituencies, even a few hundred extra votes for Ukip could frustrate Tory challengers trying to take the seats. One cabinet minister cited Ukip as among the most important factors in the battle for a hung parliament, telling the Observer it could "cost the Tories 50 to 60 seats".
Labour's figures are based on 100 "supermarginal" seats where its Mps are holding on with majorities of less than 2,000. These are the seats Cameron must win to form a majority. While Ukip will not win these seats, the minister said that if the party maintained its momentum and took about two-thirds of its support from Conservative-inclined rather than Labour-inclined voters, it could split the opposition vote sufficiently to keep the Tories out in around 50 seats.
Depending on Gordon Brown's ability to close the poll gap, the Ukip effect may not be enough to keep him in power, but ministers believe it could deliver a coalition or a small Tory majority.
The fringe party is struggling financially after a court ruling that it must return a donation ruled inadmissible by the Electoral Commission, threatening its ability to fight a general election. However, it has survived similar crises before to increase its share of
the vote in this year's European elections.
The right-wing thinktank the Bruges Group, which calculates that Ukip cost the Tories about 27 seats at the last election, said it had the potential to create more serious problems this time. Robin Oulds, director of the group, said the large Conservative poll lead disguised the fact that much of its support was still in south-east England, while Ukip's was far smaller but more evenly spread.
Nigel Farage, Ukip's leading spokesman, said he was drawing up plans to focus on key marginals. He said he was "looking to" the possibility of Tory candidates breaking ranks and endorsing a referendum in all circumstances.
John Curtice, professor of government at Strathclyde University, said Ukip could pose problems for the Tories on "party indiscipline", with candidates tempted to defy their leader over Lisbon. The threat from Ukip helps to explain why Cameron has hardened the party line on Europe, despite the concerns of some senior Tories about their allies in the European parliament. William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, insisted yesterday that Ukip would not be allowed to bounce his party.
He said: "We won't be deciding on this policy [Europe] based on the activities of what is a fringe party. We'll decide on what is best for the country and what we really believe in. The real choice is between the failed government of Gordon Brown and a new government under David Cameron."
Friday 30 October 2009
Tuesday 27 October 2009
I am fed up of being mugged!
I almost got mugged again yesterday! In Reading. The usual team of three nonchalantly wandering down a wide pavement, spread out as if just wandering aimlessly, near the disabled parking zone. I was standing next to my car smoking a cigarette when one darted towards the handbag hanging on my shoulder. I swung round as you do, pulled the bag under my arm and watched as he nodded to me that he had missed that time and crossed the road. Why do the police not target those people who target disabled people? You would think a team of plain clothed PCs could set up a way of catching them red handed just by parking an old car with a blue badge and have a lady with walking stick get out and look a bit vulnerable as if she could not run after a snatched bag.
Muggers usually work in a team of three, one to keep watch, one to mark and one to do the thieving, and I assume they work together to get what they want from a bag and then dispose of it and use the proceeds. Police would need a team of four to round them up, with an old car and a blue badge.
I am fed up of being mugged!
Muggers usually work in a team of three, one to keep watch, one to mark and one to do the thieving, and I assume they work together to get what they want from a bag and then dispose of it and use the proceeds. Police would need a team of four to round them up, with an old car and a blue badge.
I am fed up of being mugged!
Sunday 25 October 2009
Labour fears the BNP because
It takes one to know one. It takes a thief to catch a thief, so the saying goes. The best gamekeeper is a reformed poacher because he knows what to look for and how a poacher hides. Labour have long understood that fear is what drives voters to the polling station, and in the lead up to New Labour and Blair’s ascension to Downing Street that is what they worked on most successfully. Yet in 1997 this country and its people had nothing to fear but fear itself. We had a new Princess and a thriving Royal family, a strong and growing economy, the Cold War was over and this country had no enemies for our armed forces to face the threat from. They focussed on telling us that the Conservatives were evil, though evidence showed that to be untrue – it was successive Conservative administrations that had achieved the state of peace prosperity we then enjoyed.
The foremost fear the Labour party worked on in this country and right across Europe was fear of foreigners. Xenophobia is the proper name for that, and they covered their tactic by accusing all and sundry of xenophobia. They converted the meanings of words and preached a whole new lexicon. Fascist, for instance, they threw about to establish an assumed superior knowledge for the under class to learn, altering it to mean anything other than the original meaning – an authoritarian government of a socialist nature. They worked the crowd like players on a pantomime stage and the orchestrated the response from stalls. Now we see that Labour are terrified of the BNP and the horrible contorted features of its leader Nick Griffin strutting around like a chief bully in the playground surrounded by all-male heavies.
Nobody should fear the bully. His gang is a collection of temporarily hopeless juveniles desperately looking for any cause to do the thinking, to look after them and stick up for them in a fight; to feed their hunger and teach them prejudices. Bullies learned their craft at their father’s feet, their mother’s knees, within the family fold. They find the support they crave in the underclass that fears because they have grown up in fear and feel they need the support of a school bully figure for defence in a frightening world. But there was nothing to fear and they knew it. Mrs Thatcher stuck up for the people of the Falkland Islands, and the people of Kuwait, in the sure and certain knowledge this country expected it and supported those actions. Labour had a huge mountain to climb so they undermined it – by spreading their own racist message in the stalls of an audience of xenophobes.
In fact racism is a reaction indulged in only by the stupid. Excluding 90% of the population of the planet from your potential circle of acquaintances simply because of their outward appearance or tribal origins has got to be stupid; it limits your life experience and trading possibilities to those very close to your own vulnerable clique. Racists are halfwits. One might think there cannot be that many ignorant and stupid people registered to vote in this country. Public reaction to Nick Griffin’s public humiliation of the BBC’s Question Time TV programme proves otherwise.
Control of the food supply is a basic requirement for success to a totalitarian regime, but control of access to medicine and supply of medical aid is even more important in the long run. If the state controls the hand that rocks the cradle and dictates what soothers can be used on a peevish infant the state also controls the education of those whose parents have no other options to take. This country used up the most accessible natural resources a long time ago and left us as a nation living on our wits. Spawning generations of half-wits is the beginning of the end for such a nation. The way to do that is to have people shun the traditional soothing medicines and have them only afford and prefer illegal known or reputed painkillers and soothers – cannabis. Yes, the poor in the council estates do use cannabis to get the baby to stop crying. Cannabis destroys brain cells and limits the development or cognitive powers, leaving those people unable to make proper judgements that would come naturally to normal people. Labour has not only dropped immigration controls but it has dropped the system that stemmed the flow of cannabis and other mind altering, destroying, illegal substances into these islands.
So now we have a country of people a third of whom are racist and vulnerable to a racist agenda peddled by fully funded propagandists like Nick Griffin. Labour let this happen because they themselves had secured that core vote on a similar message, using people who said they were not in public but on doorsteps said what they knew the perceiver wanted to hear.
The only times I have encountered true poisonous racism, not joking, not humourously getting used to human differences, but real hatred and fear, is from members of the Labour Party. In a pre-election debate held at the United Nations Association in Reading one man, who I vaguely recall was named Philip from the Sudan, stood up and asked what was the meaning and origin of the phrase, The Third World? The Conservative Party candidate gave a full definition and source of that horrendous phrase – after a world war the United Nations had set about rebuilding the world and had to decide where resources should be targeted to start up the whole trade thing again. They defined things in three categories, the First World, who spent and bought and built, the Second World, whose identity is no longer known, and the Third who would grow and make an sell things to be delivered. All three needed help but that definitions helped identify the type of help to be delivered.
The Lib Dem candidate waffled something nondescript, irrelevant and inaccurate. The Labour person agreed with the other two. I stood up and related a tale of a man who had been working on another African 6 month engineering contract and finally found time to visit his grandchildren for Christmas, had even bought a Man U strip for his grandson, but found his way blocked by an African war zone. As he sat in his hotel room in Addis Ababa he was appalled to see that same grandson live on CNN squatting in the desert with a begging bowl, naked because someone had stolen his clothes. I asserted that the candidates’ reaction to this would tell us the meaning that phrase has now.
The Labour women stuttered that well, she thought it might be possible for some Africans to be qualified as engineers with a lot of support and outside help.
That is racism.
She believed that Africans, and maybe all people of pigmented skin, are by definition of lower intelligence and less capable that white people. One hears a huge, um but, in response to this. Yes, Africans were accomplished mining engineers long before Europeans arrived back there. They built the pyramids, they built palaces and wore gold jewellery. The contents of Tutankhamun’s tomb show that they had furniture crafted from wood using mortice and tenon joints, and made machines from metal long before Europeans had learned how to make chairs to sit on.
The racist message has sunk so deeply into the European psyche that now a third of the electorate secretly believe the same as that Labour candidate. Now the BNP have harnessed that set of fears Labour have little left to rely on for votes.
The foremost fear the Labour party worked on in this country and right across Europe was fear of foreigners. Xenophobia is the proper name for that, and they covered their tactic by accusing all and sundry of xenophobia. They converted the meanings of words and preached a whole new lexicon. Fascist, for instance, they threw about to establish an assumed superior knowledge for the under class to learn, altering it to mean anything other than the original meaning – an authoritarian government of a socialist nature. They worked the crowd like players on a pantomime stage and the orchestrated the response from stalls. Now we see that Labour are terrified of the BNP and the horrible contorted features of its leader Nick Griffin strutting around like a chief bully in the playground surrounded by all-male heavies.
Nobody should fear the bully. His gang is a collection of temporarily hopeless juveniles desperately looking for any cause to do the thinking, to look after them and stick up for them in a fight; to feed their hunger and teach them prejudices. Bullies learned their craft at their father’s feet, their mother’s knees, within the family fold. They find the support they crave in the underclass that fears because they have grown up in fear and feel they need the support of a school bully figure for defence in a frightening world. But there was nothing to fear and they knew it. Mrs Thatcher stuck up for the people of the Falkland Islands, and the people of Kuwait, in the sure and certain knowledge this country expected it and supported those actions. Labour had a huge mountain to climb so they undermined it – by spreading their own racist message in the stalls of an audience of xenophobes.
In fact racism is a reaction indulged in only by the stupid. Excluding 90% of the population of the planet from your potential circle of acquaintances simply because of their outward appearance or tribal origins has got to be stupid; it limits your life experience and trading possibilities to those very close to your own vulnerable clique. Racists are halfwits. One might think there cannot be that many ignorant and stupid people registered to vote in this country. Public reaction to Nick Griffin’s public humiliation of the BBC’s Question Time TV programme proves otherwise.
Control of the food supply is a basic requirement for success to a totalitarian regime, but control of access to medicine and supply of medical aid is even more important in the long run. If the state controls the hand that rocks the cradle and dictates what soothers can be used on a peevish infant the state also controls the education of those whose parents have no other options to take. This country used up the most accessible natural resources a long time ago and left us as a nation living on our wits. Spawning generations of half-wits is the beginning of the end for such a nation. The way to do that is to have people shun the traditional soothing medicines and have them only afford and prefer illegal known or reputed painkillers and soothers – cannabis. Yes, the poor in the council estates do use cannabis to get the baby to stop crying. Cannabis destroys brain cells and limits the development or cognitive powers, leaving those people unable to make proper judgements that would come naturally to normal people. Labour has not only dropped immigration controls but it has dropped the system that stemmed the flow of cannabis and other mind altering, destroying, illegal substances into these islands.
So now we have a country of people a third of whom are racist and vulnerable to a racist agenda peddled by fully funded propagandists like Nick Griffin. Labour let this happen because they themselves had secured that core vote on a similar message, using people who said they were not in public but on doorsteps said what they knew the perceiver wanted to hear.
The only times I have encountered true poisonous racism, not joking, not humourously getting used to human differences, but real hatred and fear, is from members of the Labour Party. In a pre-election debate held at the United Nations Association in Reading one man, who I vaguely recall was named Philip from the Sudan, stood up and asked what was the meaning and origin of the phrase, The Third World? The Conservative Party candidate gave a full definition and source of that horrendous phrase – after a world war the United Nations had set about rebuilding the world and had to decide where resources should be targeted to start up the whole trade thing again. They defined things in three categories, the First World, who spent and bought and built, the Second World, whose identity is no longer known, and the Third who would grow and make an sell things to be delivered. All three needed help but that definitions helped identify the type of help to be delivered.
The Lib Dem candidate waffled something nondescript, irrelevant and inaccurate. The Labour person agreed with the other two. I stood up and related a tale of a man who had been working on another African 6 month engineering contract and finally found time to visit his grandchildren for Christmas, had even bought a Man U strip for his grandson, but found his way blocked by an African war zone. As he sat in his hotel room in Addis Ababa he was appalled to see that same grandson live on CNN squatting in the desert with a begging bowl, naked because someone had stolen his clothes. I asserted that the candidates’ reaction to this would tell us the meaning that phrase has now.
The Labour women stuttered that well, she thought it might be possible for some Africans to be qualified as engineers with a lot of support and outside help.
That is racism.
She believed that Africans, and maybe all people of pigmented skin, are by definition of lower intelligence and less capable that white people. One hears a huge, um but, in response to this. Yes, Africans were accomplished mining engineers long before Europeans arrived back there. They built the pyramids, they built palaces and wore gold jewellery. The contents of Tutankhamun’s tomb show that they had furniture crafted from wood using mortice and tenon joints, and made machines from metal long before Europeans had learned how to make chairs to sit on.
The racist message has sunk so deeply into the European psyche that now a third of the electorate secretly believe the same as that Labour candidate. Now the BNP have harnessed that set of fears Labour have little left to rely on for votes.
Sunday 11 October 2009
2066 and all that
What will the celebrations of 1066 be like when the time comes? As it must. Time rolls on and the day of the centenary of the last invasion of Britain will arrive. At school the answer to the question, “Who won the Battle of Hastings?” used to be “They did”. Yet this generation are taught to say, “We did”.
I dispute that citing as evidence the eminence of the English language. The Normans tried to ban it, forbad the speaking of English in Royal Court in favour of Norman French. Yet the great documents of the day, the Doomsday Book and the Magna Carta, were written in Latin and then translated into English. The Normans burned all copies of our written constitution and imposed their own, which we were forced to adhere to but declined to adopt in spirit. The Norman one never got written down as one document, apparently. They let it evolve as fast as it needs to, and gradually included our own heartfelt feeling of right and wrong, of fairness and equality, of honour.
Having closed down all local amenities and means of government the Normans set about making new ones in their own image. Schools that had been taken over were to be run by monasteries, leaving women to illiteracy. We lost the education system developed over hundreds of years, for apprenticeships and academia – both practical and intellectual talent harnessed and brainwashed. It didn’t work; our old system of law still survives as English Common Law and as Scottish Law.
The old written constitution is said to have regarded women and men as equals. So girls and boys got whatever education was available or required. Women had equal ownership rights as men, daughters could inherit in the same way as sons did without fear of let or hindrance. Men and women ran businesses and took profits for investment, but that was all taken away by the Norman conquerors. Women were to be chattels from then on. So who won? The Normans invaders did. It took more than 900 years to get women’s rights back to as they should be in England, a free country once more.
We assimilated the Normans and let them stay. But we were the first great nation of Europe to hold a revolution and behead a king. Not since the days of ancient Greece had democracy been so important.
So what will we do on the anniversary in 2066? Should we allow the Royal family and aristocracy, apparent successors of the Normans, to claim victory or face reality and reinforce our grip on the rights of self-determination they took from us for so long?
Whatever we do to mark the day let it be of higher profile and more in tune with England than that planned in Normandy.
I dispute that citing as evidence the eminence of the English language. The Normans tried to ban it, forbad the speaking of English in Royal Court in favour of Norman French. Yet the great documents of the day, the Doomsday Book and the Magna Carta, were written in Latin and then translated into English. The Normans burned all copies of our written constitution and imposed their own, which we were forced to adhere to but declined to adopt in spirit. The Norman one never got written down as one document, apparently. They let it evolve as fast as it needs to, and gradually included our own heartfelt feeling of right and wrong, of fairness and equality, of honour.
Having closed down all local amenities and means of government the Normans set about making new ones in their own image. Schools that had been taken over were to be run by monasteries, leaving women to illiteracy. We lost the education system developed over hundreds of years, for apprenticeships and academia – both practical and intellectual talent harnessed and brainwashed. It didn’t work; our old system of law still survives as English Common Law and as Scottish Law.
The old written constitution is said to have regarded women and men as equals. So girls and boys got whatever education was available or required. Women had equal ownership rights as men, daughters could inherit in the same way as sons did without fear of let or hindrance. Men and women ran businesses and took profits for investment, but that was all taken away by the Norman conquerors. Women were to be chattels from then on. So who won? The Normans invaders did. It took more than 900 years to get women’s rights back to as they should be in England, a free country once more.
We assimilated the Normans and let them stay. But we were the first great nation of Europe to hold a revolution and behead a king. Not since the days of ancient Greece had democracy been so important.
So what will we do on the anniversary in 2066? Should we allow the Royal family and aristocracy, apparent successors of the Normans, to claim victory or face reality and reinforce our grip on the rights of self-determination they took from us for so long?
Whatever we do to mark the day let it be of higher profile and more in tune with England than that planned in Normandy.
Sunday 4 October 2009
The Cameron interview
I am sick of Labour people telling me the "your (Cons) new boy is a toff who never had a proper job." First time I met him was before he was elected as an MP and he did have a job at that time. He was an Eton boy - to have someone educated to such a standard and in such an ethos is a huge advantage to the party and to the country. Eton is the original multicultural anti-racist educational establishment. He made a good job of his interview with Andrew Marr this morning (4th October 2009) but I do wish he would remind us that he has had a proper job. He does know what it is like to have to meet a payroll every week, every month, on time without error regardless of impact on short term cash flow or personal recompense.
He has said enough about the Lisbon treaty for me to believe there will be a referendum here in the UK as soon as feasible after a Conservative government has been elected, and it is blatantly obvious Labour is never going to fulfil their promise to do it.
He has said enough about the Lisbon treaty for me to believe there will be a referendum here in the UK as soon as feasible after a Conservative government has been elected, and it is blatantly obvious Labour is never going to fulfil their promise to do it.
Saturday 3 October 2009
Lisbon will create the end of thw world as we know it
The people of the nation states of the European Union owe allegiance to their own head of state, the one they chose or agreed to be ruled by. They will not switch that allegiance to a President of Europe that they did not want and had no say in the selection of. It is like making a place for a new Hitler to step into, and there is always a candidate that wants to rule the world waiting in the wings. This world has never had a shortage of people who want to be omnipotent Kings or Emperors. The Lisbon Treaty makes a vacancy for a man who will be omnipotent and will have the command of all our defence forces so no matter what he orders, even the slaughter of the first born, he will have the power to do it and there will be nothing we can do to stop him or get rid of him.
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