A 9-point lead for the LEAVE campaign

The Sun reports a poll showing a 9-point lead for the LEAVE campaign:  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6910447/David-Cameron-hit-by-damning-verdict-as-poll-reveals-45-per-cent-would-vote-for-Brexit.html

The Referendum is the best chance the ordinary people have to say NO to the current model of globalisation, and to insist that international politics is reformed so that everyone benefits, not just the elite.

And if that means the elite are going to be hurt - well so be it, they had it coming, it's about time the elite felt some of the pain everyone else is having to feel.

The electorate is wrong

Labour MP Chuka Umuna tells us the electorate is wrong:  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-you-re-wrong-to-think-immigration-is-the-main-issue-in-the-eu-referendum-a6853821.html

He also tells us you have to be "in the room" to influence EU policy.

The problem is that the ordinary people are not in the room when EU policy is being discussed.

The people in the room are the lying twisting politicians who will sell our country short for their own selfish advantage.

Chuka Umuna was part of Gordon Brown's government that railroaded through the Lisbon Treaty after promising (PROMISING) the British people would decide.

Is Chuka Umuna the sort of person you would want in a room supposedly defending your interests?

No, I didn't think so.

The fact that the Financial Times is supporting EU membership tells you everything you need to know about the way in which the United Kingdom has been taken over by big corporate special interest groups (who have bought up the Conservative Party):  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/25d9bc50-cbe6-11e5-be0b-b7ece4e953a0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld_uk_politics%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz3zJPQaDXm

A fight to the death over our freedom, independence and right to self-determination

On Daily Politics (BBC2) this lunchtime Conservative MP Stewart Jackson was interviewed about the Prime Minister's EU "renegotiation".

He said he had "a sense of palpable disappointment" at the feebleness of David Cameron's offering.

And Dave's slight of hand really will not do.

David Cameron will have to go in my opinion, and go dishonoured (no House of Lords, no Order of the Garter).

Stewart Jackson later said "we've got to unite as a party of government after the referendum".

Which does make me wonder whether politicians realise how serious the referendum is.

This is not a gentlemanly game played out by MPs in the club at Westminster.

This is a fight to the death over our freedom, independence and right to self-determination.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mjxb

http://www.stewartjackson.org.uk/

The EU "renegotiation"

On Today (BBC Radio 4) this morning Mishal Husain interviewed Labour MP Alan Johnson about the EU "renegotiation".  She was pathetically inadequate.  She asked him if he was relaxed about the rate of EU immigration into the United Kingdom and he just ignored her (ignored her in an arrogant patronising let's-answer-a-different-question sort of way).  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z4w76

Wonderful performance from Isabel Oakeshott on BBC1's Question Time this evening.  She demonstrated real passion and authority and sincerity on the subject of the EU "renegotiation".  Not for the first time, we have to rely on a free press to defend our country.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1q9

The answer must be to turn the government out

Listening to further commentary on the so-called "deal" David Cameron has made with the EU, the question came into my mind:  what kind of people do they think we are?

Do they really think we can be fobbed off with such a sham, and our country taken out of our hands?

The answer must be to turn the government out.

Oh of course those mincing clever-dick pro-EU Tories will tell us "You can't do that because the other lot are far worse than us, tee hee hee, so you see you are stuck with us like it or not"

To which we must reply "Fuck you" and turn them out anyway.

Traitors must not prosper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3429834/David-Cameron-faces-Tory-critics-insists-deal-EU-offers-pathway-fresh-settlement-make-Britain-stronger-safer.html

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

Guardian

Has The Guardian become the most boring newspaper in Britain?

Formulaic, constipated with outdated views, dull.

It is also becoming annoyingly repetitive (for instance, the Owen Jones article published today about the Spanish elections is identical to the Owen Jones article published a while back on the Greek elections - presumably he did a find-and-replace check substituting the word "Spain" for "Greece").

I would stop buying it except that we need a thick liner to the cat's litter tray.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk

God Bless The Prince of Wales.

I was glad to read that Prince Charles is scrutinising "secret" activity by the government:  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/15/revealed-prince-charles-has-received-confidential-cabinet-papers-for-decades

The question:  Who will watch the watchers?

The answer:  HRH The Prince of Wales.

Otherwise those people (all parties) will get away with murder.

Of course, they hate it.  The politicians cannot stand the idea that there is an institution that is more important than they are.  An institution that prevents them assuming complete power over us.

I saw this headline and said to myself:  God Bless The Prince of Wales.

His body language was at variance with his statements

 
On Channel 4 News this evening "entertainer" Tinie Tempah (Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu) was interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy.  

Mr Okogwu, answering a very leading question from Mr Guru-Murthy, agreed that his immigrant background meant that he had a very strong work ethic.

And yet his body language was at variance with his statements.

All the time he was praising the work ethic of immigrants he was touching his chin and looking to the right.

And I thought:  you lying toad.

http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/

Pass the sick-bag

In the Left-Wing Luvvie Slot on the Andrew Marr Show this morning (presented by Emily Maitlis) has-been singer Chrissie Hynde actually name-checked Angela Eagle.

You couldn't make it up.

Pass the sick-bag, as they say in elderly Conservative circles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080bbs

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.

Obviously the American election is nothing to do with me.

I am not American and I do not have a vote.

But for what it's worth, this blog supports Donald Trump for USA President.

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.

Rivers of blood, predicted as far back as 1968

Leytonstone tube stabbing is a terrorist "incident" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35018789

Rivers of blood, predicted as far back as 1968.

Labour retains a safe Labour seat.

Big deal

Big effing deal, as some would say.

And yet the Corbyn supporters are cockahoop - exultant and triumphant and talking about new paradigms.

What we signed up to with the vote earlier this week

On Dateline London the discussion, inevitably, was about Syria.

There seemed to be serious misconceptions about the nature of "Islamic State" and the reasons why the United Kingdom has joined the onslaught against the evil organisation.

Since Hiroshima the unstated principle of Western foreign policy has been that any attack by a non-Western enemy upon a Western nation will result in overwhelming, indiscriminate and terrifying punishment.

Ho Chi Minh defies America? - hundreds of thousands of yellow people are killed and south east Asia is bombed back to the stone age.

Saddam Hussein threatens the West - hundreds of thousands of brown people are killed, Hussein is hanged, and Iraq is comprehensively trashed.

Muammar Gaddafi sponsors terrorism in the West - Libya gets a beating and Gaddafi is killed and thrown on a rubbish heap (metaphorically).

There is no "after plan" to any of these scenarios.

You threaten the West and you will get a beating.

I have doubts about the effectiveness of this policy.  I have doubts about the morality of this policy.  But it is what we signed up to with the vote earlier this week.

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

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

The "anti-bullying" campaigning of Mr Johnson

One can understand that Ray Johnson, in coping with the suicide of his son Elliott Johnson, should work through the anger stage of his grief and hit out in all directions in an effort to relieve the pain he is feeling.

But increasingly the "anti-bullying" campaigning of Mr Johnson in itself amounts to bullying:  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/03/tory-bullying-claims-cameron-distance-youth-group

And why is Mr Johnson trying to pre-empt the findings of the inquest into Elliott Johnson's suicide?

Why is he so desperate (because he sounds increasingly desperate) to be judge and jury in the case and to have "guilt" safely apportioned before the Coronor has given his opinion?

This doesn't look right.