On Andy Coulson

I'm just wondering who's media grid launching the political smear attack on Andy Coulson via the Guardian is on.

We know Labour have dirty tricks units setting up, and this sort of smear and innuendo stuff is just the sort of operation they have run in the past.

I have no idea of Mr Coulson's involvement in doing the electronic equivalent of going through peoples bins by tabloid journalists. However it now turns out that the Guardian had no new evidence and the police see nothing to make any further investigations about.

Right now this looks like muck racking from Labour.

Its going to be a dirty nasty campaign to eject the unelected Scottish socialist destroyer of our economy from office and all his nasty but expensive hangers on.

PS What are the odds on the Prince of Darkness being involved in this one ? It has his style.

How the government and BBC are brainwashing your children against Christianity

Old Holborn has a guest post on the BBC's bit sized GCSE revision site.

Its incredible stuff - and maybe that's how they get away with it. ( The site can be viewed directly here ).

The BBC would like us to believe that religious programming can be left in the safe hands of a Muslim. The relative treatment of Christianity and Islam in these revision articles shows this is just not the case.

Warning: If you have a weak heart or underlying medical condition that will be made worse by a sudden rise in blood pressure then you'd better not follow the links.

The CEP: Gordon Brown puts Scotland first

A bit behind already today, so here's a press release from the Campaign for an English Parliament - that has my support:

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CEP Media Unit. for release: Tuesday 8am 7th July 2009

GORDON BROWN PUTS SCOTLAND FIRST, NOT BRITAIN.

“On the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament last Wednesday July 1^st Gordon Brown published an article in the Scottish Daily Record,” stated Philippa Cullen of Lower Froyle in Hampshire in her end-of-month message to CEP members in the county. “It reeked with Scottish nationalism. Coming from a British Prime Minister who should put Britain first and speak equally of each nation of Britain it was outrageous. Yet it was totally very consistent indeed with his written pledge of March 31^st 1989 when as ‘one of the leaders of Labour’s campaign for devolution’ he had signed the Scottish Claim of Right vowing ‘to make the interests of the Scottish people paramount in everything he said and did’. His government, he says, ‘has never stopped focusing on delivering for the Scottish people’.

“In the article he celebrated ‘Scotland’s rich and vibrant political history’. Eerily he talked of ‘the bravery and brilliance of Scots in uniform’, no mention of the English who make up the vast bulk of the British Army, Navy and Air Force. He described how he ‘had campaigned for a fairer future for Scotland’ and how he had made policy that ‘pays off for Scots. Our decision to build two state-of-the-art aircraft carriers at shipyards including Govan, Scotstoun and Rosyth has secured thousands of jobs in Scotland and protected Scots’ hard-earned savings’. He omitted to mention that the preservation of shipbuilding jobs in Scotland had been at the deliberate expense of England's shipyards, particualry Devonport and Tyneside.

“He exhibited breathtaking effrontery by saying that ‘the Scottish people rightly felt frustrated in recent decades as unpopular decisions were made on health, education and policing’, while knowing full well that his fellow Scottish Labour MPs in the UK parliament have taken away English MPs’ choice on foundation hospitals and university tuition fees by voting against them and imposing these against English wishes.

“Unashamedly he boasts that the Scots can enjoy ‘influencing decisions in Westminster’ while making no mention of the West Lothian Question. He trumpets on about ‘Scottish solutions to Scottish issues on things such as free personal care for the elderly, tuition fees, free travel for the elderly and prescription charges’, as if England doesn’t have exactly the same issues; and as if he is unaware, which he most definitely is not, that in terms of tax revenue it is the English taxpayer who pays for the extra benefits the Scots nosw enjoy. In terms of tax revenue Scotland is unable to pay its own way. ‘The Union Government invests billions of pounds in Scotland beyond the Scottish Parliament’s £35 billion annual budget’ he writes. What he does not write is that 90% of the Union Government’s revenue comes the English taxpayer.

Because of devolution Brown writes, ‘Scots could finally start taking more control of our daily lives’. Note his use of the word ‘our’. He smugly says “For the first time in 300 years, Scotland once again had its own parliament’. There is no fiercer opponent of England having its own parliament and the English having ‘control of their daily lives’. than him; and he is using all the instruments of the British state to try to make sure it never happens. He boasts of ‘hosting a working dinner in my home in Fife for leaders from all the Holyrood parties’. Would he ever as much as think of getting representatives of the people of England together ‘to focus on delivering for the English people’?

As Brown so rightly says in the article, more truthfully than he realizes: ‘In short, devolution gives Scotland the best of both worlds’

Contacts: Phiippa Cullen: Tel: 01420 23216 Email: imarcher@lineonee.net

Michael Knowles, CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139. email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

The establishment is trying to warn us about our current plight

Sometimes its too easy to rant about civil servants and the establishment, especially when they are quiet despite challenges which are a very clear and present threat to our country.

But I have noted a number of attempts by those who serve us, or did so, and are often beholden to the current government to warn us, or prepare on the quiet for the disaster when Gordon Brown debt time bomb goes off. Here are a few I've spotted floating by recently:

1. NHS Trusts currently planning for a 5% cut.
2. Civil servants secretly preparing plans for a 20% cut in departmental budgets.
3. Meryn King's warning about "Fiscal Stimulus" and more recently about plans to reduce the debt.
4. The failure of that gilts auction, that now has the bank of England printing money to fund the government.
5. John Major warning about VAT at 20% and a 5p raise in basic income tax ( whilst dismissing the Labour myth that just the rich can be taxed to cover things ).

There is a common message emerging to both parties that more radical action that is being currently openly discussed will be necessary.

This puts the dishonesty of Gordon Brown in talking about raising public spending into its correct perspective.

PS I wonder if the 20% doom's day plan isn't needed to be able to act intelligently to a rapid funding crisis, which must now be a real fear. You can see the scene - the government is unable to sell any more debt and is on the verge or actually becomes insolvent. The IMF steam in ( if we're lucky and they have enough money left ) and demand large cuts tomorrow. At least a plan would exist so the brutal surgery didn't cut too many arteries of the country. However perhaps the reported planning may be more extreme than necessary to force some sort of prioritisation out of each department and to avoid the fake efficiency savings and accountancy tricks being put forward to the Treasury.

Update Wat Tyler has some insight into civil service activities - and its worth talking a look at his analysis on the 20% cuts here.

We need to start really holding our politicians to account and jailing those who commit fraud by lying

Just read the following in a great article by Peter Oborne:

Scandalously, defenders of the Government argue that this culture of deception is of no real importance — simply part of the cut-and-thrust of political debate. I disagree most vehemently.

Imagine, for example, that the chairman of one of our large private companies, such as BP, had conducted himself as Gordon Brown has done in recent weeks and lied to the Stock Market about BP’s future investment and spending plans. He’d have been forced out of his job by now.

Indeed, it is also highly likely that he would have been visited by the City of London fraud squad and be facing a jail sentence.

It occurs to me that this is precisely what's wrong right now. Gordon Brown should have been arrested by now and be on trial for fraud. In Labour's modernised without morales society they lie as they breath. There need to be consequences.

Brown has condemned our country to poverty for a generation - he should stand trial for the contested truths he spouts ( just as a company director would ) and assuming he gets convicted be sent to prison for a decade.

Sarah - hate to break it to you but its your husband who's exporting Gary McKinnon to a life in prison in the US

The desperation and hypocrisy of Labour is getting beyond belief. Sarah Brown has the nerve to sympathise with the the campaign to stop the automatic extradition of Gary McKinnon - under legislation that Labour brought in !

Labour were warned about the consequences of their abandonment of the government sovereign rite to protect its citizens, but as ever they thought they knew better.

Instead of the crocodile tears, how about getting her husband to the dispatch box to apologise and beg for forgiveness for allowing such an unequal extradition arrangement to exist ( and the one with EU countries also ) and to beg the house to repeal the relevant Labour legislation ?

PS What won't Sarah Brown do to get headlines right now ? She is as guilty of the destruction and demise of the UK caused by her husband as any of the other in the gutless Labour group that allows the unlelcted prime minister to continue for one more day in office.

Crude Britannia - recommended politcal viewing

A few days ago I watched the first episode of the BBC's documentary Crude Britannia - which despite BBC3's growing reputation is actually about the history of oil and gas exploration and production in the UK.

I guess I was drawn to it as its my industry, at least in part. I've spend a few months training to drill oil wells and being a rough neck, and what they tell you on the programme is all true - at least it was a decade ago ( some of the drilling process has become more automated on some rigs since ).

But you should watch it if your interested in politics. Whilst the slightly inevitable left of centre world view which the BBC is so justly famed for comes out, it doesn't spoil the background.

If your under 35 and you want to know what Thatcherism was really all about - look at what was happening to Britain before her.

Also if you have ever read Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" or seen the TV documentary version you'll realise that oil has been central to much of the macro economic battle between countries over 100 years.

In the early 1960's Britain was crippled with debt ( from the second world war - though Gordon has just created a similar amount today ) and had failing industries that couldn't compete ( not so dissimilar to today ).

The one bit of luck Britain had was North Sea Gas and Oil. The revenues gave the Thatcher government the breathing space to conduct its reforms. ( It does not bear thinking about what would have happened otherwise ).

Watching this documentary takes you back to our country at a time of high debt, with unsecured energy sources and when we were having problems paying its way in the world.

That's just where Gordon Brown has just put us back to.

Oil is a critical issue. There's a load of wishful thinking and triangulation about tree hugging energy sources, but they won't keep the lights on. And when the lights go of the truly desperate politics will follow. Most people in this country give little thought to the oil industry that in many ways has kept our country afloat. ( Compare to the coverage the coal mines get in popular culture ).

In the programme you see a pub operating by candle light - I can remember those days (just). However I bet with modern tills, electric beer pumps and health a safety laws they couldn't operate today in the dark. Neither could our massive chilled food supply chain. Which is a shame because its where we are heading right now.

The BBC iPlayer versions can be found below. I recommend an hour watching, especially if you under 35.

Its time we rediscovered what not paying your way in the world ultimately leads to, before its too late.

Episode 1 (recommended )
Episode 2 (Haven't seen yet )

Brown's desperate interview with Nick Robinson

Every time it really starts to fall apart for Brown he phones up the BBC and gets a reporter over to do help get the message that is laughed out of court in parliament. At the 10pm news we had Nick Robinson asking the questions and Brown producing his usual smoke screen of obscurification and incredible answers (BBC post on this is available here - Nick Robinson did mange to get him to almost admit that cuts may happen ).

Having made the zero % increase gaff in PMQs he will have been desperate to divert attention. Such is the dishonest art of Labour spin doctoring and its obsession with news control and deceit of the electorate.

Brown still will not admit that the governments own figures indicate considerable cuts in departmental spending hiding behind the dishonourable fallacy that who knows the future ? Yet at the same time he smears his opponents by claiming he knows their policies with certainty - even when he doesn't know his own government's circumstances.

This man is just unfit for office. If he doesn't know that then its because he's deluded.

Is there nobody in the Labour party willing to put country before their career or fear of the No10 smear machine to save our country ?

Google Trends "Brown Liar"

Haven't had time to watch PMQs yet - but from what I hear the Brown being economical with the Truth thing is going round again .... Google are now able top record the searches for "Brown Liar"

In the interest of fairness I used a comparison for the search term "Cameron Liar" just to get a sense of perspective.