The BBC's open hostility to the incoming Trump administration

I am disturbed by the BBC's open hostility to the incoming Trump administration.

The behaviour of the national broadcaster may be doing serious damage to the interests of the United Kingdom.

I am not willing for my taxes to used by individuals in the BBC to propagate their extreme "liberal" (sic) views.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38575592
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38589427
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38582441?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/78080d81-2849-497e-bc3a-bf364626456b/donald-trump&link_location=live-reporting-story

Fagin

I hope that Labour's enquiry into anti-antisemitism within the party looks at the disgraceful campaign waged against Michael Howard in 2005 - with Fagin and Flying Pig posters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36175660

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4217009.stm

"Crisis, what crisis"

Do you remember all those smug lefties who said they were enjoying watching the Tory party tear itself apart over Europe?

Well now it's our turn:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36160135

And I LOVE Jeremy Corbyn's reprise of "Crisis, what crisis" - he is truly a 1970s man.

The SNP has been taking money from Vladimir Putin

Interesting comment on last night's Newsnight by David Frum (Senior Editor, The Atlantic) that the SNP has been taking money from Vladimir Putin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25

So ignorant of current affairs that she thinks Canada is a republic

Did Nesrine Malik really claim, during today's Dateline London, that no-one can remember who the President of Canada is?

Is she really so ignorant of current affairs that she thinks Canada is a republic?

And no-one on the panel corrected her.

Which left me thinking:  these people are all self-important idiots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m93g

David Cameron's joshing of Jeremy Corbyn

"Horrible, nasty, pathetic" is Owen Jones's verdict on David Cameron's joshing of Jeremy Corbyn's sartorial style:  https://twitter.com/OwenJones84

And yet on Dateline London this morning Polly Toynbee jeered at Donald Trump's messy hair: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0728j8j/dateline-london-27022016 (12.10 intothe programme where she is saying his policies were "as terrifying as his hair looks").

And has Owen Jones forgotten the 2008 Crewe & Nantwich by-election where official Labour individuals pranced around in top hats and tails to imply that dressing formally should be a bar to holding a parliamentary seat?

Horrible, nasty and pathetic indeed Owen Jones, but your side started it.

A dark and shameful capitulation by David Cameron

The so-called "renegotiations" of the United Kingdom's membership of the EU are announced.

And they will not do.

This is a dark and shameful capitulation by David Cameron.

He is being very badly advised.

And there seems to be no major politicians rising to the challenge of history and providing leadership on this most important of all issues.

What have we, the ordinary people, done to deserve this shower of shit?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/feb/02/eu-renegotiation-donald-tusk-david-cameron-red-card-veto-eu-renegotiation-donald-tusk-publishes-draft-plan-to-address-camerons-concerns-politics-live

http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/02/camerons-vanishing-renegotiation.html

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/640055/David-Cameron-s-EU-renegotiation-emergency-brake-migrants-benefits-explained-Brexit

Superfluous

In case anyone was wondering, I am still around.

It's just that Jeremy Corbyn has largely made my work superfluous.

Indeed, in all three aims and objectives of the institute (countering the Labour party; helping "renew" the Conservative party from within; carrying out a transformation of society based on leaving the EU) the situation is so far advanced that we need a period of consolidation.

In 2005 who would have believed that the monolithic Labour machine would elect Jeremy Corbyn and tear itself to shreds, with resignations live on the BBC.

Who would have belived that we would have a Conservative majority government with a Conservative Prime Minister of six years standing.

Who would have believed that we would not only have a referendum on United Kingdom membership of the EU, but actually have a LEAVE side that stands a good chance of winning.

However, on the issue of the referendum I think it is unlikely that we will win first time round.  Indeed it might be better to lose by a narrow margin and wait for a larger swell (not least a swell of anger) to carry us forward.  Whatever the result, the national consensus that our future lies in the EU has been broken, and broken for the foreseeable future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35239232

Donald Trump has done us a favour

British politicians need to be careful about the abuse they are hurling at Donald Trump.

He could well be next American President.

In the early 1990s there were those around John Major who attempted to interfere in the American election on the side of George Bush senior, and Clinton was so enraged that Anglo-American relations suffered as a result.

And Donald Trump is quite right to say that there are parts of London where people do not feel safe - I was born in Weedington Road in Kentish Town and I definitely do not feel safe going back there.

Would any police feel safe going onto Broadwater Farm Estate even today?

And if the streets of London are so safe why did former Labour Minister Harriet Harman have to wear a flak jacket when walking (with a police guard) in Peckham High Street http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/1583485/Harriet-Harman-in-stab-vest-for-Peckham-walk.html

The problem with idiots such as David Cameron and Boris Johnson is that they have NO IDEA what it is like to live surrounded by Muslims.

As someone who as a teenager grew up in the Dallow Road area of Luton, I can advise you that living among Pakistani-heritage people is an extremely unpleasant and unsafe experience.

Donald Trump has done us a favour by drawing attention to a serious problem that hoity-toity stuck up British politicians are too grand and important to bother themselves with.

The minimum wage has now become the average wage

On Sunday Politics (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) there was a report from Boston where migrant labour has led to local wage rates plummeting:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hq1h6

They actually said the minimum wage has now become the average wage.

If you increase the supply of labour the price of labour will fall.

Equally, if you stop the supply of labour the price of labour will rise.

The vote in favour of military action was a mistake

The Oldham by-election was a referendum on the House of Commons vote to join in the Syrian war.

Don't give me all the guff about the polls saying public opinion is in support of the war.

Effectively you had the immigrant community in Oldham combining with the ordinary voters (of all parties) and the core 2010 Labour vote to elect the Labour candidate because Labour was (on the whole) the party that said no to the war.

This is problematic for Conservatives such as myself who think the vote in favour of military action was a mistake.

One does not want to side with the "terrorist sympathisers" of the Labour party.  Still less does one want to encourage in any way the Muslim community.  And so the only option is to remain, on the whole, silent.

But the war is a mistake. 

And I was appalled watching the debate to hear speaker after speaker advise we should let in more Syrians.

The terrorism in Paris and now in America was a result of the failure of multiculturism (the terrorists were from local immigrant communities).

And yet we are being advised that the answer to the failure of multiculturalism is yet more multiculturalism.

I'm afraid the proponents of multiculturalism are fanatics.

The proponents of multiculturalism are insane.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35014665

Conservative politics at the youth stage is trivial

I am sad Grant Shapps has resigned:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34952981

For the record, I first joined the Conservative Party age 16, first started going to meetings age 14, first self-identified as a Conservative age 10 (in a mildly Labour-voting family living in Dallow Ward in Luton).

In all the time I have been involved with the Conservative Party I have never experienced any bullying or seen any bullying of others.

I am sorry for the parents of the person who committed suicide, but I think they should stop blaming the Conservative party and look for other reasons.

A young man does not casually commit suicide.  There would have been indications beforehand that his mind was disturbed, and surely his parents would have noticed those.  Certainly one would not expect a young man to commit suicide for trivial reasons.

Because Conservative politics at the youth stage is trivial.  It is more a social club than a political movement.  There are no high stakes, there are no life-or-death issues, there are no all-or-nothing moments.

There is nothing to be gained from rising to the top of Conservative Future - most past National Chairmen have gone nowhere, whereas David Cameron has got to Prime Minister without even being a member.

I did meet obnoxious people when I was involved in Conservative youth politics - and all I did was leave that branch and join a neighbouring branch.

Things are different where real power is concerned.  I note that Wes Streeting MP complains in this article about bullying within the Labour Parliamentary Party:  https://www.facebook.com/wesstreetingmp/posts/899934880056082  We know that Gordon Brown bullied the staff who worked for him, pushing people off chairs, using mobile phones as missiles to throw at people etc.

But no "young" Conservative has any real power, and no-one takes young Conservatives seriously, not even other young Conservatives.

The Andrew Marr Show this morning featured American actor Tom Hanks

The left-wing luvvie slot on the Andrew Marr Show this morning featured American actor Tom Hanks:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080bbs  (he told us about his admiration for Hilary Clinton).

Earlier in the newspaper review one of the guests was liberal American author Stanley B. Greenberg whose latest book is America Ascendant (self-described completely without irony as "A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century" and supposedly about how liberalism is now triumphant in the USA):  http://us.macmillan.com/americaascendant/stanleybgreenberg

I am afraid this morning's Andrew Marr Show, with its self-satisfied liberal Americans and lickspittal Scottish groupie was so odious and repulsive I felt nauseated.

It was like that scene in the Aviator when the young Howard Hughes goes to a meal with the Hepburns and experiences rich liberal Americans, wallowing in the vulgar fatness of wealth in a way only liberal Americans can manage, showing off and admiring each other and announcing with confidence "We are all socialists here":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA

What would happen if Apple were given a confidential commission

I have only had my iPhone 6S for a few weeks but already I feel I cannot do without it.

It is so well designed and easy to use.

And it makes me wonder what the world would look like if Apple were to design more elements of our life.

What would an iCar look like?  Or an iSchool?  Or even an iSupermarket.

And whether Apple could tackle institutions and organisations.

For instance, Conservative Future will need a relaunch following the takeover by Central Office.

What would happen if Apple were given a confidential commission to create a new Conservative youth movement - cool and shiny in design and appearance, completely digitalised, irresistible to young people aged 16 to 24 (but no tinkering with policy please - we need to reconfirm Conservative values and British national identity).

John McDonnell has given a speech

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has given a speech this week:  text of speech

Talking about the 1950s and 1960s he asks the question:  "...why is it that so many things we took for granted back then are no longer available to our children’s generation?"

He has not yet realised that open door immigration is incompatible with a welfare state (including health care, education, unemployment benefit, social housing, public transport, public libraries etc) paid for out of general taxation.

Huge increases year on year in the population (and so in the numbers of claimants) reduces the amount of welfare available.

The only way to maintain 1960s levels of welfare with 21st century levels of immigration is to have huge rises in taxation to keep step with the rises in immigration.  As the taxation paid by post-1997 immigrants does not cover the social benefits they consume (and cannot do so, since the whole point of importing cheapo immigrants is that they are paid minimal amounts of money and so do not pay much in the way of tax) this must mean that non-immigrants must subsidise the social consumption of immigrants.  This social-economic model is not fair nor is it sustainable.

Mr McDonnell goes on to say "...we need government to understand and accept the strategic role it has to play in our new economy... a process that will see us work with businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists, trade unions and wider civil society to shape the economy of the future".

This sounds like the Little Neddies that operated under the umbrella of the National Economic Development Council of the 1960s and 1970s.

Perhaps Mr McDonnell should be reminded of Enoch Powell's speech to the South Kensington Young Conservatives on 30th November 1970:  "You can neither intervene, not withdraw from intervention, by half-measures".

The EU has become a belief system, a religion, an ideology worshipped for its own sake

On Dateline London earlier today the Belgian-French journalist Marc Roche talked about the Schengen Area with such fanatical insistence that one doubted his rationality.

Increasingly I am of the opinion that we are not dealing with normal people when considering EU enthusiasts.

The EU has become a belief system, a religion, an ideology worshipped for its own sake not for any benefits it might bring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06q6yxz

The objectives the Corbyn faction are working on

Martin Kettle in yesterday's Guardian listed the objectives the Corbyn faction are working on in the Labour Party.

"The left faction around Corbyn is focused not so much on new politics or new ideas but simply on taking control of the party machinery. This is an entirely logical approach because, until that is achieved, it is harder to change policy or commitments. The left’s priorities – and they are certainly the priorities of the Leninists Corbyn has brought in – are therefore to make procedural changes. Altering the rules for electing the leader to reduce the influence of MPs; strengthening the grip of the annual conference over policymaking; boosting the national executive at the expense of the shadow cabinet; clearing out opponents in the upper reaches of the party organisation; and, ultimately, deselecting centrist MPs and getting more leftwing, union-endorsed candidates in safe seats."

So now we know what they are up to.

 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/12/new-politics-old-politics-tribalism-labour-conservatives

"corduroy-jacketed, snaggletoothed, lefty academics"

"corduroy-jacketed, snaggletoothed, lefty academics."

This is an example of gestalt technique.

You build a picture in your mind from the different elements provided.

And you immediately know who is being referred to!

It is a characteristic of gestalt technique that people who go through the process of building a picture in their mind from component parts are more convinced of the idea that if you just told them straight out who you are ridiculing. 

One wonders what the bro-squad round Jeremy makes of this veiled attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34788389 

The ordinary people want their country back

The Cameron "negotiations" with the EU will not do:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34770875

The ordinary people want their country back.

Instead they are being offered a four-year deferment to foreigners helping themselves to taxpayers money.

David Cameron is being very badly advised here.

Presumably the circle round him think they are invincible because Labour are in such disarray.

They need to think again.

David Cameron will have to go, and go soon.

And I do not want to see Osborne in the job - he has been cast in the balance and found wanting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NN62uD1ZAc

Pushing and pushing until they are absolutely told to back off

"...the case is being used as a test case by the leader’s internal Labour opponents to see how much power they can exert over the leader using existing party structures..."  http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/this-is-how-labour-mps-are-trying-to-undermine-jeremy-corbyn#.ajrabY57RE

It was a characteristic of New Labour 1997-2010 to keep pushing and pushing until they are absolutely told to back off.

There is no point in Jeremy Corbyn thinking it will all eventually settle down - it will never settle down.

He needs to take them on and defeat them.