"The middle classes are becoming the new whipping boys for 'New Labour'"

The post headline is a quote from Peter Morris, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers in Wales in an article by Graeme Paton in today's Daily Telegraph.

The great irony here is that the more the NuLabour government - lead by the arch interferer Gordon Brown - mess up education by fixing admission by asking which way daddy and mummy voted what a candidates parents achieved - the more education will become worthless.

Privilege will allow people to get their children internships in big companies ( like Tony Blair's son Euan gets ), whilst the talented, but without contacts, will be left on the scrap heap with no means of advancement.

The Grammar school row damaged the Conservative party - but it also showed how incendury government destruction of peoples children's futures is. Right now the Labour government is creating a bonfire for of the hopes of many capable children - many from working or middle class backgrounds - for the sake of their own political spite. The public will hate them for it - if we can explain what is going on !

The BBC must be Biased - just look at this !

In my last post I picked up a sloppy bit of journalism by the BBC. I didn't know the full story - becasue they weren't telling - but others do.

But just lets see how the Anti-Tory campaign was rolled out at the BBC.

First at 20:12 GMT version 0 was issue - a short stab in Cameron's back.

They keep adding to it till by 05:40:13 GMT 2007 they are on their 9th version - adding more and more anti-Conservative material to the story.

Go to News Sniffer and see the hatchet job in action here.

I recommend looking at the following comparisons v0 to v2 here
and v3 to v8 here.

And don't forget to find out what the BBC has failed to tell you about why Mr Miraj is trying to inflict damage on the Conservative party here (hat tip Tony Sharp).

The BBC's post title should really be

Attack on 'PR'-obsessed Cameron by BBC Journalists



You would think that the following quote from Cameron ( also available on the BBC web site - would be relevant wouldn't you - uinless you are a Labour party supporting left wing journalist who doesn't think the British people deserve to be told the full facts ( perhaps a transfer from Blue Peter ? ) The article this came from is here..

Mr Cameron said Mr Miraj - who had wanted to be selected as a Tory Parliamentary candidate - had, only hours before making his comments, been to see him to ask him to make him a peer.

"I think we should probably look at his comments in the light of that," said Mr Cameron.

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I'll put the v3 to v8 comparison below also - in case these things get removed from Newsniffer over time:

Version 3	Version 8
Attack on 'PR-obsessed' Cameron Mon Jul 30 21:30:19 UTC 2007	Attack on 'PR-obsessed' Cameron Tue Jul 31 05:40:13 UTC 2007
An activist who was part of David Cameron's 2005 leadership campaign has become the latest to criticise the Conservative party leader.	An activist who was part of David Cameron's 2005 leadership campaign has become the latest to criticise the Conservative party leader.
Speaking to the BBC, Ali Miraj said Mr Cameron used "gimmickry" and was "obsessed with PR".	Speaking to the BBC, Ali Miraj said Mr Cameron used "gimmickry" and was "obsessed with PR".
He questioned Mr Cameron's selection of Tony Lit as Tory candidate in the recent Ealing Southall by-election.	The criticism came as Mr Cameron prepares to outline Tory plans for improving discipline in schools.
Meanwhile, former party chairman Lord Saachi warned "nicey-nicey" politics would not win the next election.	In addition, two polls in Tuesday's press suggested a "Brown bounce" as Labour kept ahead of the Conservatives.
Substance	Substance
Mr Miraj, who was among David Cameron's strongest supporters and is on the board of two of the party's policy review groups, said: "I'm disillusioned because I think substance has been replaced by PR.	Mr Cameron is to suggest a policy which would see the creation of contracts between schools and parents that could be enforceable.
	He wants to change the system under which families can appeal against their children being excluded.
	Mr Miraj, who was among David Cameron's strongest supporters, also questioned his selection of Tony Lit as Tory candidate in the recent Ealing Southall by-election.
	He said: "I'm disillusioned because I think substance has been replaced by PR.
"What I'm asking for is some substance and some credibility and not box-ticking and gimmickry.	"What I'm asking for is some substance and some credibility and not box-ticking and gimmickry.
"People have had enough of Tony Blair for 10 years. They don't want another Tony Blair.	"People have had enough of Tony Blair for 10 years. They don't want another Tony Blair.
"The contrast is with Gordon Brown. David Cameron in my view has got substance, somewhere in there, but I'm afraid that in recent weeks, that has been taken over by PR.	"The contrast is with Gordon Brown. David Cameron in my view has got substance, somewhere in there, but I'm afraid that in recent weeks, that has been taken over by PR.
"What I want to see is that balance redressed so that we can have a decent chance of winning the next election and if present form continues, we certainly won't."	"What I want to see is that balance redressed so that we can have a decent chance of winning the next election and if present form continues, we certainly won't."
When the Conservative Party moves along the dimension from nasty to nice, nothing happens Lord Saachi	When the Conservative Party moves along the dimension from nasty to nice, nothing happens Lord Saatchi
Mr Miraj questioned the decision to pick Mr Lit as a Tory candidate when the businessman had only joined the party days earlier.	Mr Miraj, who is on the board of two of the party's policy review groups, questioned the decision to pick Mr Lit as a Tory candidate when the businessman had only joined the party days earlier.
In the by-election in Ealing Southall, Mr Lit ended in third place.	In the by-election in Ealing Southall, Mr Lit ended in third place.
Mr Miraj also questioned Mr Cameron's judgement over his decision to visit Rwanda to learn about development issues while parts of his Oxfordshire constituency suffered flooding.	Mr Miraj also questioned Mr Cameron's judgement over his decision to visit Rwanda to learn about development issues while parts of his Oxfordshire constituency suffered flooding.
Mr Miraj is hoping to be selected as a parliamentary candidate himself.	Mr Miraj is hoping to be selected as a parliamentary candidate himself.
Also on Monday Lord Saachi criticised David Cameron's focus on branding and urged him to appeal to voters on the economy.
'Limited appeal'	'Limited appeal'
Writing in London's Evening Standard newspaper Lord Saatchi said the Tories needed to find "an expression of true Conservative ideology".	Also on Monday, former party chairman Lord Saatchi warned "nicey-nicey" politics would not win the next election.
	Lord Saatchi criticised David Cameron's focus on branding and urged him to appeal to voters on the economy.
	Writing in London's Evening Standard newspaper, Lord Saatchi said the Tories needed to find "an expression of true Conservative ideology".
He pointed to Tony Blair's reforms of Labour in the 1990s which led to the party developing a reputation for economic competence.	He pointed to Tony Blair's reforms of Labour in the 1990s which led to the party developing a reputation for economic competence.
"The earth shook," he said. "When the Conservative Party moves along the dimension from nasty to nice, nothing happens.	"The earth shook," he said.
	"When the Conservative Party moves along the dimension from nasty to nice, nothing happens.
"It follows that nothing will happen until the Conservative Party has something compelling to say about the subject that matters - economics."	"It follows that nothing will happen until the Conservative Party has something compelling to say about the subject that matters - economics."
	Two polls by national newspapers brought more bad news for Mr Cameron.
	'Brown bounce'
	A survey for the Times put the Labour party six points clear of the Conservatives with 39% of the vote compared to 33%.
	The Populus poll, which questioned 1,511 adults, also found Mr Cameron was personally lagging behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the popularity stakes.
	More than half of those surveyed (56%) believe Mr Brown has what it takes to be a good prime minister, compared with 32% for Mr Cameron.
	A further poll for The Independent put Labour on 37% (up five points on a similar poll last month) and the Conservatives on 34% (down three).
	The CommunicateResearch survey of 1,006 adults suggested the swing to Labour since Mr Brown became prime minister last month has come largely from male voters.
Mr Cameron had also been criticised earlier by ex-Tory frontbencher Graham Brady for failing to reach out to voters in the north and Midlands.	Mr Cameron had also been criticised earlier by ex-Tory frontbencher Graham Brady for failing to reach out to voters in the north and Midlands.
Mr Brady said the Conservative leader was not making sufficient headway in the key battlegrounds which will decide the next general election.	Mr Brady said the Conservative leader was not making sufficient headway in the key battlegrounds which will decide the next general election.
Mr Brady, who quit as shadow Europe minister over the grammar schools row, said Mr Cameron's appeal was limited to urban liberal circles around London.	Mr Brady, who quit as shadow Europe minister over the grammar schools row, said Mr Cameron's appeal was limited to urban liberal circles around London.
Conservative Central Office declined to comment.

The BBC as the voice of Brown Labour

What great rejoicing there must be in the newsrooms of the BBC. Finally Blair, who they eventually fell out of love with after the Sexed up Dossier business, has gone.

Brown is in. How can he be helped ? (Martha was doing her best at lunch time - repeating the suggestive question about how things had changed since Tony Blair.)

Well what about trawling around for news stories to help back up Brown's kill Cameron campaign ? Only too happy to help.

The BBC have a little hatchet job titled "Attack on 'PR-obsessed' Cameron". Its a quote from a Conservative Activist, so they've stopped trawling for councillors who say something they can use to attack the conservative party then ?

The BBC would be fair and balanced - if they report the views against the leaders of the other parties with the same sensationalism - tuned in perfectly with the strategic line of attack of the other parties enemies.

There is no information about how these quotes were obtained - have they been working their way round the whole country in the hope of serving their new master ? Did he phone them ? Doesn't professional journalism require some explanation ? Or is this a Blue Peter / Children in Need type moment where the public don't need to understand the truth ?

I'd complain to the BBC's complaint site - only the last two complaints I put in ( under my actual name ) haven't received replies. I suspect they just ignore people who don't have their pink rose tinted view of the world.

Remember -the BBC are institutionally left wing and actively act to prevent democracy functioning in this country. They have lost the trust of the centre right in this country.

Here's the content of the report - see if you can figure out the relevant contexts from this:
[ Last Updated: Monday, 30 July 2007, 20:21 GMT 21:21 UK ]

An activist who was part of David Cameron's 2005 leadership campaign has become the latest to criticise the Conservative party leader.

Speaking to the BBC (When and under what circumstances ?), Ali Miraj said Mr Cameron used "gimmickry" and was "obsessed with PR".

He questioned Mr Cameron's judgement in travelling to Rwanda during the UK floods and his selection of Tony Lit as Tory candidate in a recent by-election.

Mr Miraj is hoping to be selected as a parliamentary candidate himself.

Mr Miraj, who was among David Cameron's strongest supporters and is on the board of two of the party's policy review groups, said: "I'm disillusioned because I think substance has been replaced by PR.

"What I'm asking for is some substance and some credibility and not box-ticking and gimmickry.

"People have had enough of Tony Blair for 10 years. They don't want another Tony Blair.

"The contrast is with Gordon Brown. David Cameron in my view has got substance, somewhere in there, but I'm afraid that in recent weeks, that has been taken over by PR.

"What I want to see is that balance redressed so that we can have a decent chance of winning the next election and if present form continues, we certainly won't."

Mr Miraj questioned (but when and in what context) the decision to pick Mr Lit as a Tory candidate when the businessman had only joined the party days earlier.

Or can we look forward to the disillusion opinions of Labour activists getting headline coverage on the BBC soon ?

Perhaps its just incompetence on behalf of the BBC that they haven't reported this properly. ( Its not that the story isn't news worthy - if taken from the correct context then its legitimate - but that information is missing. )

Looks like my instincts were right here - see below:

Update: Tony Sharpe has the full story over at the Waendal Journal. He has the context and explanation for Mr Miraj's comments. It just leaves you wondering if the BBC is useless or deliberately manipulative ?

Has this lead to the BBC rephrasing its story ? Oh no - they have added more hatred at the conservative party - to try and spread the story a bit. Their last post if at Last Updated: Monday, 30 July 2007, 23:33 GMT 00:33 UK and now includes a series of other anti-Tory reports at the end.

BBC = Brown's Broadcasting Corporation.

The unintended consequences of Gordon Brown

Forcing teenagers to stay in education until 18 will cause “mass truancy” and criminalise thousands of young people, a teachers’ leader has warned.

As today's Daily telegraph reports.

Such is blindingly obvious ! ( See my last post on this ).

Its the unintended consequences of mass state intervention that make socialism the disaster that it has been proven to be.

So lets make a list of other "unintended consequences Gordon Brown through the Labour party has brought about:

• The GP system is now part time - but costs more.
• Efficiency (aka value for money) in the NHS has plumetted. Now not even your GP can refer you to hospital - as your medical needs are diverted in the Stealth waiting lists run by the government inspired primary health trusts.
  
• Our servicement are now dying in old worn out or inadequate equipment - thanks to Gordon Brown and the treasurey.
• Tax credits maladministration mean that many poor families now often have major financial crisis's.
• The failure to hand out farming subsidies by Labour meant a fine - which was taken out from the Environmental Agency - just before the floods !
  
• Only the honest are punished by the police now days ( crime targets means they prefere to catch the easy crimes ).
• Immigration is uncontrolled - housing stoke is reduced and prices too high.
• Cynacism in British politics is at a all time high - thanks to the spin that Gordon Brown - the real spin master - has precided over.
• Devolution has meant that the English now have no equivalent representation to those areas of the country were their money goes to subsidise.
• The top three priorities of the Gordon Brown government don't apply to the constituency he represents.
• Christianity has been effectively criminalised in many walks of British life - like commerce.
• Criminals are released early - even those who are a recognised danger to the public - because of a basic failure to plan and provide for prison places.
  

Any more anyone ?

How Labour is creating new and dangerous waiting lists for England

It is still necessary to spend some money in England on health treatment, although the Celtic Labour government much prefers to send the money to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

How can the English be conned out of more they must have asked themselves ? The answer is an ingenious system where the local primary care trust second guesses the GP and cancels referrals makes sure none of them happy too quickly - to save money. After all where else will all the money to pay for the extra drugs and services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland come from ?

Maybe this seems to be an over reaction - but it is the impact and effect of the way the Labour Government now runs the English NHS ( the only part of the United Kingdom where they have responsibility for the NHS).

"ROGUE GUNNER": Better help call for Falklands veterans.

Just read the post below and I can't help but feel a bit ashamed that there hasn't been better support for our former servicemen. Mind you I'd feel far more ashamed if I live in Ashtead right now !

"ROGUE GUNNER": Better help call for Falklands veterans.

Why the case of Stephen Hospkins makes me think about the death penalty

From what I have heard of the torture and murder of Stephen Hopkins I can only describe the sentences handed out as inadequate. Just trying to put yourself into his situation is horrifying and your mind recoils and wants to hide the thoughts away.

Given the pure evil of his murder and the self awareness of those who carried it out I have to say they deserve to hang.

I'm generally against the death penalty for loads of practical reasons, except for Treason - where the anti-British New Labour party removed that sanction - but its seems to me that in this case its what Justice demands.

The socialist way of defending marriage

One the socialist have finished their little hissy fits about some single mother being discriminated against justifying damning the common good by not supporting marriage - as the Conservatives want to - they should watch out for what their own side is up to.

I've blogged on this before ( see here and here ), but their solution to the failure of cohabiting couples to take the responsibilities of married couples is to say they're all married in effect anyway.

Its common law marriage ( which everyone used to think existed - but doesn't right now).

You will have to opt out of the state induced marriage or else you get to share the legal responsibilities for you "partner" that the marrieds have to carry.

This will be interesting - see report on the 'Justice' ministry review here.

There will be a lot of people getting very worried about this - my bet is most of them will be males who used the "we don't need a bit of paper to prove our love" or "why spend all that money just for a piece of paper" ploys.

Doubt it will win Labour many votes - the unintended effect will probably be more atomised families - with the men only staying the night sometimes. More single mothers - oh hold on now I know why the guardianistas will like it ...

Why isn't Labour interested in power ?

No that may seem an odd line - but I have a point, so here we go:

Most of our legislation is in effect determined in Europe. During the last election the Conservatives were told some of their polices would be illegal on immigration - because of the European Union.

I've heard it said that over 80% of our legislation is determined by the EU. So why is Labour and Gordon Brown pushing the - its not a constitution line. Everyone knows that it is - foreign governments say so openly. There is strong doubt that any of Tony Blair's so called red lines actually hold.

So what's in it for the Labour party ? They devolve much of the power in their heartlands to the Nationalists. They give away much of the remainder to the new European Empire (EU). Apart from all the ministerial limoseanes and having their egos stroked - what's the point ?

It won't be long before tax and defence become taken over by the EU.

They know this as well as everyone else does - so what their motivation ? They must have one - and it worries me that I'm not sure what it is.

Newsnight needs to check its facts: Ethiopia is a Christian country.

Just watching a Newsnight special (BBC news prog) on Islam.

Quick point on their map: Ethiopia is primarily a Christian country and Nigeria is equally split (it might have an Islamic majority).

Its a shame that a prog trying to provide insight can't get its basic geography right.

No doubt the Ethiopian embassey will be in touch.

Update: The CIA relgious demographic figures are contested and there seem to be different views. See the discussion on Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ethiopia#Demographics.

It is possible that as the government of Ethiopia is dominated by Christians that the Muslim population is underestimated. But either way it is clearly in doubt. Since the worlds largest Muslim country ( by population ) is India the News night map is still rather odd, contentious and still probably wrong.

Gordon Brown announces Conservative policies on security

He's making a statement in the house right now. His announcement includes:

Unified border forced
A review of using telephone intercept information
Post charge questioning

He's pushing the extra detention argument again - but just quotes from Lord Carlyle. Bring us the evidence Gordon - and we might listen to you. Personally I think this is the wedge issue he';s using for party political purposes to gain advantage.

Personally I'm not that bothered with him taking Conservative policies in this area as they were based on common sense not political philosophy. Though he might say thank you ( maybe that's why he's wearing a blue tie. )

There's much more to this announcement - it will take some digesting no doubt. With Gordon Brown its not what he announces - but what's in the small print you need to watch.

He just suggested sponsoring English speaking Imans - so the Church of England is out, Islam is getting state funding. Right....

PS David Cameron good at PMQ - but its a sticky wicket when there are a number of easy quotes for GB to throw back at him.

Update:

David Cameron's answer is very effective and detailed. He sounds authoritative and has a comprehensive grasp of the details. He's just having a go at the European Charter of human rights right now. He's just asking Gordon Brown to thank his party for all the policies that he's adopted from the Conservatives - nice. Will Gordon say thank you ?

Rain radar

If you haven't found it already the following site gives access to rain fall info from radar across England, Take a look here....

There are also plug ins for Microsoft's Vista sidebar and google side bar somewhere ...

I'm beginning to wonder if a camping holiday in England for the Summer was such a good idea after all ;-)

If you can reduce the minimum wage in NI, Scotland and Wales should you not reduce benefits also ?

Gordon Brown must be wondering about if he's made a mistake at the treasury with the minimum wage as he's rumoured to be thinking of regional variations ( the British Nations and a British Region in Gordon Brown speak ).

If its works for the minimum wage - then why not benefits also ?

This will be interesting ...

"Prime Ministerial Award for Social Technology"

The conceit of the man !

He has the nerve to re-announce making it easier for unsung hero's to get honours ( does no one remember that before - along with the people's peers etc - maybe Gordon was snoozing in cabinet when it was mentioned before ).

He has written a book to associate himself with promote unsung heroes.

Then he has the nerve to name an award after his office, and in effect himself !

He should perhaps remember that he is "First among equals" and stop trying to act like he was head of state. Its perhaps part of his creeping republican agenda - clearly such an award should be from the Queen or other member of the sovereign's family.

Just shows you the spin goes on and on .....

Didn't Gordon Brown try to get a day's holiday to celebrate the end of his reign as rector of Edinburgh University also ? At least he's consistent.

Remeber - the Thames gateway was New Labour's idea

Given rising sea levels, and the sinking of the land in the East only New Labour could try to build in the path of a possible tidal surge up the Thames. There's a reason these places don't have houses on them right now.

Lets just hope that along with calling of a visit to house building in Reading (flooding today) Yvette Cooper thinks of the poor people who may one day have to contend with a storm surge without the protection of the Thames barrier and just the services of the Environmental "We can get flood barriers 20 miles in a emergency - no problem" agency to save them.

Just look at this government promotional video - look how close the sea and water are. Then remember that shortly the Thames barrier won't even be enough to protect London, let alone those places down stream.



Let hope we don't get Gordon Brown telling how this couldn't be foreseen and promising to set up a review and make sure the lessons are learnt. Because it will be too late for many good people by then. The sea is even more violent than a flooding river.

Update: Apparently there is to be a film starring Robert Carlyle on this very subject - or rather close with the Thames barrier itself getting over topped.

The First Post gets it "New Labour’s Hurricane Katrina"

In case you think its just me - take a look at today's First Post and Neil Clark's article: ( Quote below)

"People whose homes have been damaged by the recent floods are entitled to ask where the British government's priorities actually lie. Earlier this year, the Met Office and risk planners in Whitehall warned ministers that due to the so-called El Nino effect, this summer would be much wetter than usual, and there would be a serious risk of flooding. What did the government do? They cut back on spending at the agency which deals with flood prevention."

It is shame that the Conservatives are not making much more of this. All I see and hear on TV is Hillary Benn trying to mislead the public with his slight of hand on Capital budgets ( see last post ).

Unfortunately NuLabour have been very good at getting away with things - cash for honours, foot and mouth, farm payments etc.. You have to get your message across fats and broadcast it every way you can before the Hillary Benn's and Yvette Cooper's of this world get into their smudging of the issues and broadcasting the spin NuLabour line.

Update: The BBC has just flashed the news that 350,000 will lose their water supplies within 15 hours !! Hurray for New Labour and their cuts in the Environment agency !

Labour are lying when they say the floods could not have been predicted - they were.

The first major scandal of the Brown government is now starting to take form.

The Labour government have failed to act on long range and short term warnings of the flooding that is taking place. Perhaps they were to caught up in the coronation of Gordon Brown, the cash for honours inquiry, the battle to be deputy prime minister leader to worry about the people of England.

Its seems to be a product of the El Nino phenomena that is occurring this year. ( So says a small article in the Observer ).

We don't seem to hear that on the BBC - perhaps because it would make it clear that the Labour governments were to blame. (We know that the BBC doesn't always behave in an honest way - preferring to leave the audience with the information they see fit to give them rather than the unbalance or even just the truth.)

I guess if you've been a victim of the floods - your internet connection is perhaps also out. but you should be angry, not because of a slow response to come and help after the floods or Hull having its traditional chip on it shoulder about a London Government .

But because when Gordon Brown said an "emergency that no one could have predicted" - it wasn't true. They had been too busy positioning themselves for ministerial limousines, ensuring that money keeps flowing north and west from England, wasting large amounts of the tax payers money by just dumping it in unreformed public services, cutting back the environment agency ( they perhaps thought no one would notice ).

Lets be clear here-

• The Labour government is responsible for flood defences and emergency planning.
• They were warned - clearly that this would happen.
• They responded by cutting back the environment agency and doing nothing about the woeful public flood defences and drainage system.
• Even in the recent past they still have not got their act together. ( After Sheffield and Hull - did they react better this time - only difference I can see is that Gordon Brown got on telly to launch his misdirection by claiming the floods couldn't be foreseen).

Perhaps Labour just doesn't have minister who are capable enough for the jobs they are given. Or perhaps they just don't care. What is clear is that they have failed in their duty and many people have suffered. ( this is perhaps why Gordon Brown was so quick to promise 100% money to compensate local authorities - he knows now about the criticism that's coming ).

No one can turn a drama into a crisis like the Labour government can - remember Foot and Mouth anyone ? The Army had to straighten them out in the end - after the Cosnervative party begged them to be allowed to take over !

[ See also this post - which has some of the sources and blogs where this is traken from. Credit to Ralph at Some Stuff blog - fro bringing some of this together. ]

Update: Just heard Hillary Ben on BBC News 24 c19:42 misleading the public - and the BBC interviewer allowing him to do it ( after all the BBC loves Labour). Benn was asked about the cut in the Environment Agency's budget - Benn responded by answering a different question ( how very NuLabour ) by answering on Capital budget. He knew he was misleading people as he kept mentioning the Capital budget. What kind of a man misleads people at time s like this. Labour - politics is always more important to them than the people or doing their jobs.

Update Mon am: Hillary Benn on R4's today this morning - spouting the same line on Capitl budgets. But this time the interviewer pushed him harder, and won't take the deliberate deception being pushed by Benn. The interviewer quoted from an email sent in from an alleged employee of the environment agency to say that money from the agency had been diverted ( as well as the cuts in its overall budget ) to help pay for the farming payment fiasco that Margarette Becket et all created ( associated with the suicide of a number of farmers ).

The key point here is that a Labour minister - one of the supposed most honest - is delivberately trying to misdirect the British people and preventing interviewers from discovering the truth. As I've said before this is who they really are !

England under Labour ? Under water in more ways than one !

Labour has neglected our flood defences, but have made the usual promise of some future rise in spending - like all Labour promises its some date in the future - gone are the days when you could get a clear honest signal out of government about what it is actually doing.

Lets see GBP 600 Million /year 2007 - inflated at the actual rate inflation rpi ( rather than the Gordon Brown fiddled rate - cpi ) gives GBP 730 Million/year in 2011. Hillary Benn promised a rise to GBP 800 million - ie a real terms increase of 70/730 = 10%. in 4 years time. I doubt that covers the damage that the current deluge has created.

It Gordonomics - you hear the number and think that flood defences are getting GBP 200 million more that looks like 200/600 = 33% - and nobody thinks about the deferral of when it will be spent.
This is the usual utter contempt that Labour holds the general public in. We have been getting upset because Blue Peter and Children in Need have deceived their audiences ( or worse ) - but Labour does the same thing all the time !

The only thing you can be sure of is yet more money will head to Wales and Scotland from England as the Celtic Labour government bleeds England dry then leaves her to drown.

Of course the other drowning of England is in the debt that has been run up to fund Gordon Brown's state sector ( guaranteed votes for Labour there- means Gordon can play at being PM ). Except the performance doesn't improve in the Soviet systems Gordon has set up. A member of my Church had a stroke in Feb and was back for the first time today. He told us of after how after a number of days helpless in hospital God answered his prayers with a physio actually turning up and getting a wheel chair the next day ! This is the truth of the English NHS - you best pray for health care because the money has moved to Labour heartlands and to bribe Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

By the way nip over the the Institution of Civil Engineers site for a post that was made before recent events and scores highly of the prophecy stakes. They say flood defence spending needs to be GBP 1 billion /year. ( Update: Just seen that the same figure is now being mentioned by the Environment agency - shame Environment Agency chief executive Baroness Young didn't make a song and dance about it earlier eh ?)

Update: Blog reactions I have found on the English floods are:

Some Stuff - has picked up that the Met Office warned months ago about the current deluge (citing the a Guardian article here ). He compares it to Gordon Brown's bland statement (here) that no-one could have predicted these floods. Looks like Gordon's either lying or not on top of his job. A palpable hit there Ralph.

John Redwood points out that the Environment agency hasn't been keeping up the flood defences. ( So now we know that the government was warned and let things get worse not better ! )

Fair Deal Phil (Socialist warning ) notes water supplies are now threatened. Shame he hasn't realised its his own governments fault in many way !

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Note: The first version of this blog post had the increase down as 4%, rather than 10% as I'd run a year too long. Correction now made.

Calcs below: I've assumed 5% inflation - the true figure will be a mix of wages, materials and other business costs. Of course the actual figure will vary greatly dependent on conditions at the time, but what I want to illustrate is how we are mislead by big promises far in the future.

What a Labour promise is really worth ? Inflation 5% Rpi Year Funding 2007 600 1 2008 630 2 2009 662 3 2010 695 4 2011 729 5 2012 766 6 2013 804 7 2014 844

The edge of project Cameron

With the Southall bye-election result in ( Labour retaining the seat and the Lib Dems coming second ), despite a high publicity campaign, which to distant observers like myself seemed to suggest a stronger showing than materialised, its time for a bit of a rethink from the Cameron team.

Today's Telegraph describes Gordon Brown's emerging strategy as New-Realism (its a key article I recommend you read it). There is also criticism of the tactics deployed in the Southall campaign - with too much imposition from Central office.

David Cameron is showing signs of getting just a bit tetchy with some of his MP's, especially Cornerstone ( Iain Dale/Guido would refer to them as Tombstone - due to the socially conservative traits they disagree with - but again compare to the potential success of New Realism, Cornerstone at least has a strategy that chimes with the mood of the times.)

We have reached the edge of what the re-branding effort can achieve - and David Cameron needs to understand that. We now need an effective and insightful criticism of the government that is effectively communicated to the public. Everything has been soft focus so far, now is the time to sharpen up our criticism and explain to people the damage that Gordon Brown and his devotees are doing and intend to do to our country.

We need issues such as:

The lack of an EU referendum
The English Question
Simplifying taxation
Reducing the size of the state ( the proof of the ineffectiveness of throwing cash at the NHS and police is in the news nearly every day right now. And its =not like anyone holds out any hope that government or its agencies are remotely effective or fit for purpose.)

Now of course Gordon Brown is hoping to pin the old - veering to the right tag - followed by the usual lies that Labour roll out around election times ( like the famous the Tories are going to fire every nurse and doctor - do you remember Gordon Brown standing with Tony Blair by the poster supporting that - so much for Brown's integrity ).

So lets stop repositioning and start fighting for what we believe in and for our country.

Update - this could be more serious than I thought - see here.

Update - I should add flooding as an issue. Labour have ignored the warnings this year. Just as they have ignored the warning about tidal flooding in the Thames gateway. We must not let them get away with what in the case of the Thames gateway and London will amount to murder.

"I'd be shocked if my Mum did something like that"

The quote/title for this post is from one of Jacqui Smith's ( Gordon Brown's Home Sec ) constituents that I just heard on radio 4.

And there in lies her problem - not that she smoked drugs at University - but that people think of her firstly as someone's Mother.

John Reid never had that problem ! Though I'm not sure there wasn't some story about Cannabis being found at his home.

Freedom of religion is dying in Britain

After a period of religious conflict in this country Queen Elizabeth I is famously quoted as saying she had "no desire to make windows into men's souls". She understood how to let people with different, but strongly held faiths, coexist and live in peace.

Now we find the freedom to organise your religion in accordance with you conscience is no longer the right of an Englishman. Examples today are:

1. An adjudicator appointed by Exeter University has ruled that is would be okay for a Muslim to become leader of a Christian society ( in this case the CU), as any restriction on membership based on professed faith cannot be allowed. What this in effect means is that any minority religion can be crushed on campus by the majority. It presumably also means all the Christian Union members could join another religious society and use it against the faith is claims to profess. This is just madness - and of course political correctness fuelled by the intolerance and anti-Christian hatred of the National Union of Socialists Students. In other Universities aggressive anti-Christian campaigns have been mounted - of a type no one would dare to carry out against other religions.
2. The Bishop of Hereford has lost an employment tribunal for refusing to employ a man whose views disagree with the teaching and traditions of the church over 2000 years.

Now the courts and Universities decide which parts of the Christian faith are acceptable and legal - when at the same time the law is broken to allow a cow with TB to avoid slaughter and no one dares say anything about Islam.

These measures are all clearly related to left wing politics in the UK and NuLabour in particular. I don't see how any Christian, who professes the faith either of the Church of England or the Catholic church can be a member of or vote for these oppressors of traditional English religious freedom.

"Discrepancies plague 13 million tax records", says Computer Weekly

The full horror that is about to compounded by a switch over to a new system is available here. ( Article by Tom Collins ).

Its worth reading onto the article about politicians ( for which read Gordon Brown ) must learn to stop rearranging the tax system - at least without thought of the systems implications.

Here a fact I heard in the pub a while ago from someone working on these systems - did you know you National Insurance number isn't unique - or at least may not be ?

English nurses are worth less than Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish nurses !

The normally reasonable and placid RCN is balloting on strike action. Why ? Because Nurses in England will get an effective pay rise of 1.9% ( thanks to a Brownian slight of hand giving a two stage award ) compared to the 2.5% .

The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all given the pay rise immediately - after all they have lots of spare cash from their subsidies from the English tax payers.

The effective First Minister of England ( Vidkun Quisling Gordon Brown - MP for Kircaldy Scotland ) in his last and current roles has said it can't happen for England.

Can anybody spot the usual conflict of interest here ?

Also the nurses - like everyone else - should not fall for the new Gordon Brown stealth version of inflation at 2.5% - its really nearer 5% - so we're only discussing how big a pay cut English nurses deserve. ( And of course most of those who have just qualified as Nurses can't find jobs anyway - thanks to the Stalinist planning of the current Labour government.)

Do you think Gordon Brown went into politics to run education only in England ?

Just reading an article on how 'A' level standards have slipped over time, according to Gordon Brown's new education advisor, on the BBC site here, when the following phrase jumped out at me:

"Sir Peter was recently unveiled by the government as the academic who would lead a review into primary maths - a centrepiece of the incoming prime minister's plans to raise school standards in England."

Just think about what is being said there ( though of course the BBC doesn't emphasise the issue ) - Gordon Brown is running the education system in England only.

Do you think he got into politics to do that ? If Mr Brown really thinks Education, Health and Housing are the priorities for his constituents then he's in the wrong parliament.

This point just doesn't seem to come across in the MSM right now.

Now that the outcome of the next election looks more in doubt - the few moves the BBC have recently made to admit to their internal liberal-leftist bias will now not seem so urgent - as the threat of surviving a Conservative government may appear to recede. They are unlikely to give the people of England a voice that contradicts their new masters. ( Especially when most of the BBC staff will no doubt vote for them anyway.)

Everyone is invited - except the English !

Let play a game of spot the Englishman at the British-Irish Council ....


No wonder the BBC didn't link to the site in its article (see below). But does the spin for Brown talking about NI and the great shed loads of cash that English tax payers are going to dole out to the Northern Irish as a bribe to stop killing themselves and bombing England.

I suppose we are supposed to be grateful the "British Regions" isn't up there. Imagine it everyone is important except the English who are paying for this whole thing !

Update: See also the Waendel Journal - there's a great graphic of the UK their that kind of makes the point !

Further: The CEP blog has this also ( and a link back here, as well as to Tony.) I have to say all this gets me very worked up - I'm wondering if I should get a check up on the lines that Rachel Joyce has been helping the good people of Southall with !

Right - I'm off for a run round the block to keep the blood pressure down.

Just had a link to the graphic below posted in comments - thanks Anon 1.58pm !

Labour try to have it all ways - the spin is back

As part of Gordon Brown's carefully crafted plan to decieve the public about his true nature the Brownian spin machine is now in running at full tilt.

Supercasino - just say no. ( Can anyone remember Gordon I want to save my job and lack the courage of my convictions Brown objecting before ? ).
American (We're not going to be slavish friends but give the yanks the benefit of our half baked socialism and naive view of the work that gave you CND amongst other things - but then the boy Miliband is on TV saying we didn't mean that at all - after pocketing the support from the public.)
Housing (re-announce loads of things - make brief statements. Start trying to blame the financial industry for the coming house crash - does anyone remember Gordon Brown boasting about interest rates in the last 10 years or fixing the bank of England by measuring inflation in a different way ? )
England ( or in NuLabour spin speak the British Regions - and all the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs will be busy legislating on Gordon Brown's priorities that apply only in England. )

So let no one doubt spin is back - in fact you have to start wondering if Gordon Brown wasn't the force behind Labours spin and character assassination campaign at the start ..... Maybe thats why we have Ed Miliband giving out his Meme's about David Cameron having to shore up the right etc ...spin, spin and more spin.

If only they took their responsibilities in government half as seriously as making sure they continue to have access to all the goodies and money that government brings them.

God save the Queen !

from

• the BBC,
• Gordon Brown,
• Cherie Blair,
• and Channel 4.

(Channel 4 haven't done anything yet - but its good to get your condemnation in early ).

May we also have the head of the controller of BBC 1 on a spike on Tower Bridge please.

Why:

Because even if the story had been true he should never have used to promote his TV schedule ( and of course the significance of what he was saying and its damage to the monarchy is so obvious that he must have thought of it and approved of those ends ).

The Queen is our head of state, when you bring her down you bring us all down.

I sometime think this country doesn't realise how lucky with have been the Queen Elizabeth II. I have no doubt she is far from perfect but she has served her country well, with honour and distinction. In doing so she has also shown that leadership that seems to escape some of our politicians so much - setting and example.

May her reign be long and may the republican maggots who seek to do her down be shown for what they are. ( By this I mean those who push their republican agenda by stealth. Gradually reducing the monarch, but without having the courage to admit to what they are doing in the light of day.)

Update Simon Heffer gets it ! See here.

Lets bring the issue to a head

As David Cameron has said there is no reason why Scotland could not prosper as an independent nation. Personally I think we're better of together, but not under the coercion that many in Scotland feel. So if you agree sign up for the e-petition for a referendum on Scottish independence ( and also of course English independence ! ).

Gordon Brown wants to try to dismiss England as "The British Regions" - lets show him how shaky the ground he stands on is.

Gordon Brown priorities cannot impact his own constituency or country

Just saw Gordon Brown insulting all the people of England with his arrogant answer to the version of the West Lothian question put to him at PMQs.

So what are his priorities to be ? (Don't even start me on the spin he's using to justify being rude to the Queen by trailing the Queens speech in the most blatant leak of all time.)

• Housing (Devolved to Scottish Parliament )
• Health (Devolved to Scottish Parliament )
• Education (Devolved to Scottish Parliament )

No wonder he want to take his ideas around the "British Regions" (the New Labour term for England ) - as none of his ideas will impact the constituency he represents !

Do none of the quisling Labour English MPs see what's wrong here ?

Left wing bias in the media - don't get mad, get even !

Just looking over USS Neverdock's blog and found a link to this article about political bias at a state broadcasting corporation. Its not the BBC, but the way the journalist dealt with it has to be a shinning example to us all - see here ...

Plans to further Balls up education

Softly and bit by bit Ed Balls looks like he's going to undermine Tony Blair's academy schools. Not directly - as the socialist have become cowards about outlining their ideas in the light of day - but by stealth ( wonder where he learnt that trick ?).

Universities are to be bullied into running academies. Now the headline might sound good but if you have some experience of universities the idea should fill you with horror. ( Perhaps Ed Balls privileged private school education and time at that most a-typical of British universities Oxford has blinded him to the problems.)

Now Universities have enough problems running themselves. Many academics can hardly teach - let alone administer things. The trendy academic educationalists are who cause a large amount of the break down in standards and achievement in our education system - putting them in charge is just madness.

Anyway why should Universities be any better than LEA's ?

But its a good stalking horse to remove the cash requirement for setting up the schools. It also provides a route for Brown/Balls to do their social engineering so that those school's pupils will get favoured entrance to the Universities, by taking the places of gifted children whose parents vote the wrong way - just like Eastern Europe under Stalin.

The BBC quotes Balls as saying:

"The test of whether an organisation can be a potential sponsor should not be its bank balance, but whether it can demonstrate leadership, innovation, and commitment to act in the public interest," said Mr Balls.

Which other potential sponsors does Balls have up his sleeve - Trade Unions perhaps ? The government will no doubt give them more money like the Union modernisation fund - so the Union's will have more money to give to the Labour party.

Having said that it would be fun to watch the NUT try to run a school - as long as my Children don't have to go there.

Ignor the Guardianistas - this man says IDS is right on marriage and negative incentives to stay together !

The First Post ( which has been a bit like the Daily Gordon for a while ) has a fine short article showing how IDS has a point.

A Man explains how he is about £10,000 / year better of, under Gordon Brown's taxation system, to be separated from his son's mother than to stay together.

Since he earns just above the minimum wage that's a lot of money !

See the article here ....

Here comes the Brown debt hangover

Its moving closer. Inflation is heading up - even by the government re-gigged measure that ignores the stuff middle class families find expensive. ( The floods and food prices won't help - neither will the price of oil heading up, and that's before the Iraq pull out sets the middle east alight. )

All this sounds oddly familiar. Changes in the way inflation is recorded ( Dennis Healey anyone - changing inflation to being measured over 3 months instead of 1 year - I may have some of the details wrong I was rather young at the time ).

Now a new "Price Check" like system for Mortgages - as Alistair Darling wishes everyone's mortgage didn't go up with the Bank of England base rate. ( Shirley Williams - when in the Labour party - or was it Barbara Castle can't really remember. Just remember the sign outside the local sweet shop when I went of to spend my 10p pocket money. The sign would be up for half the period it was meant to cover - then the shop would give in a raise its prices - as of course it had to do so, it was self delusion to think otherwise.)

Its all familiar - because it should have been burnt into our memories, and because it didn't work. We needed a grocers daughter to explain to us that basic good money and budgeting are needed.

We have got used to money being good and debts being manageable. We have relied upon it. Gordon Brown has financed the massive increase in the public sector to buy votes with it. ( And of course all Gordon's clever little wheezes to spend tomorrow's pensioners money of his own little schemes today and hide large debts of balance books with PFI.)

The facts of life do inevitably turn out to be Tory - but we've forgotten them.

Clever tricks to make money out of peoples debts or government initiatives designed to buy new air time at our long term expense with statements about key workers etc will not help.

The fundamentals are wrong. The state sector is too big and wasteful. We deal with it now - with some pain or we deal with it when the Chancellor has to turn his car round on the way to the airport as the economy starts to collapse. But we will need to deal with it.

Its not what the British people want to hear. There will need to be much more clear evidence of the failure of current policies before they will accept it - but the irony is by that time the cure will be as bad as the disease. ( That is perhaps because the soft left and BBC bang on about the pain of the cure in the 1980's, but not the disease of the 60's and 7o's that made the surgery necessary).

Sorry this is a bit of a ramble today - but I worry we are repeating our mistakes and Gordon Brown has brought most of this about by himself. It doesn't seem to fit current Conservative strategy to point this out forcefully - but it should.

The greatest irony is that its the very people at the bottom of society that all the political parties claim to care about who will suffer the most by ignoring the fundamentals of the economy.

Update See John Redwood's Diary on the house and debt. John can remember what CPI and RPI are - I mention them above but have forgotten the TLAs !

Iain Dale's Diary: Cameron Has NOT Accepted IDS'S Drinks Tax Proposals

Iain Dale's Diary: Cameron Has NOT Accepted IDS'S Drinks Tax Proposals

Which is a good job as I'm starting to pick up emails on this one !

Use salvation to fight Islamist terrorists

Wide spread coverage has in the past been given to what suicide attackers expect to receive in whatever the Islamist version of Heaven is.

They rarely prepare these acts without other people knowing. However friends and family may be reluctant to inform as what do they get out of it ? Their friends or family members sent to prison as failures and their act of betrayal discovered.

How about this;

If an individual provides information to the police to prevent an act of terror being carried out by an individual then that person can be granted a large reduction in the sentence that the person charged with preparing the act receives ( there could be other conditions like a sort of de-programming course for those who have been tied up in terrorist philosophies).

Then going to the police not only saves the innocent people who would have been murdered, but also helps save the potential terrorists, many as we know have been groomed to carry out these acts.

Think of how much more attractive that would be to parents or spouses, who may have a abstract sense of loyalty to the state - but very much have the best wishes of the potential terrorist/child/partner at heart.

In short provide a way that providing information to the police could also save the suicide bomber - and thus provide a strong incentive to provide life saving information.

What are Gordon Brown's motives and influences

Tom Pain has a post that's worth reading. Its a theme that many of us should try to develop.

There was a time when the idea of a Labour government would have filled many with fear, but Tony Blair seduced the country. But we now wake up next to Mr Brown - what sort of man is he really ?

The United Kingdom has become a Labour confidence trick

Now that Plaid is going into 'government' with Labour in Wales the Celtic nationalists are in power in every one of their 'countries'. (What this really means is into the business of spending English tax payers money on their lunatic revival of a stone age language and other acts of dire and always expensive stupidity.)

But England doesn't exist. Gordon Brown uses the "Scotland, Wales and the British regions" ploy to cover the fact he has no mandate in England. His solution is to abolish England as an inconvenient fact.

At the same time that the Welsh are trying to educate their children in an obscure language they also think a different legal system will help them (the cost of the alliance with Plaid - but when you've got a nice government salary you want it to continue for at least 4 years - whoever is paying - and as it happens to be the English - who cares ?). Of course lawyers will do very well as will politicians. But the cost of government will sky rocket. Business will be deterred from Wales - so the public sector will take up more of the slack. Who will pay ?

The English of course.

At the same time Labour is undermining our inheritance by selling out to the EU. The English being the people most likely to object are ignored, deceived and spun against.

When is England going to wake up to all this ?

The power to dissolve parliament and the PM

Every so often something that just makes the headlines strikes you as odd, but then there are more important things to garb you attention.

Gordon Brown's plan to give up the Prime Minister prerogative to ask the sovereign to dissolve parliament is one of those.

No one seemed that excited - after all what real difference will it make ? Certainly today's Economist thinks it means little if the prime minister of the day commands a majority in parliament ( after all Mr Brown is not asking for fixed terms ).

But of course nothing Gordon does is by accident. This has implications, its just not had that much investigation yet. My guesses are as follows:

1) This will be key in a hung parliament. Say we have three main parties and the Lib Dems as king maker - they can chose which party governs and prevent a further general election. They can in effect sack one party and offer the government to the other with no risk that an out going prime minister might call a general election. Think - if David Cameron did a deal with Ming and the Lib Dems - at any time they could call the Labour party back into power. The power would move from the prime minister to the leader of the Liberal Democrats !

Perhaps Gordon calculates that this would guarentee that any minority Conservative administration would be neutered at birth. ( Since the Lib Dems are to the left of Labouir on many things and similar centre left government would not be so constrained.)

2) The office of prime minster and in effect leader of the party would become much less powerful and the business of leadership much harder. No one could threaten his own party with a general election unless they towed the line. Weaker government must result.

Any other ideas ?

Brown's command economy screws up supply of nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, speech therapists etc

Here we have the true nature of our education and health service.

They are one area where coordinating demand and supply should have a fighting chance of working. But even so the soviet system fails again.

We have too many junior doctors this year. ( See posts everywhere else.)

Apparently 69% of graduate nurses can't find jobs.

I was at a party a few weeks ago where a young woman was telling how the course for speech therapists had just competed had only 1 in 10 employed afterwards !

So the soviet state sector is wasting our money by the truck load, and crushing young peoples dreams and chances at the same time.

Yes - this is the time to have a once in a life time review for political reasons (spin - the sign that Gordon was here) of the NHS to help stop any reform of the system.

Gordon Brown and his NuLabour government have their finger prints all over this one.

Want to know how bad PMQs was for Brown ?

Then see what the BBC are reporting him saying "Brown dismisses Commons 'theatre'". The fact he has to say that shows how badly rattled he's been. just a few days ago he was telling us how he's changing the constitution to keep Labour in power make parliament more important !

The BBC has rolled out a smiling Gordon Brown - this is the type of Bias the BBC easily gets away with - so they like to help every way they can.

He's actually had a Union flag put over Downing Street - he's showing signs of losing the plot.

Isn't putting up a flag just theatre - or to give it its real NuLabour term spin ?

Hatty 4.0 Harman begs for mercy already !

Things are just not going Hatty Harman's way. (She didn't look like she enjoyed the Gordon disaster in the common yesterday either.)

She gets elected to be John Prescott's replacement by attacking her own party and government's line (both of which she was pleased to play along with when it suited her) - only to discover that Fatty Prescott had eaten all the goodies and there was to be no such thing as deputy prime minister any more.

Now she's pleading with Teresa May to go easy on her, not because she has 3 other jobs* to keep her busy as well as being leader of the commons - deputy 'leader' of the Labour party, Woman's minister and party chairman, but because ....ummm... no good reason really provided. She can't play the X chromosome card on this one !

Teresa May probably can't believe her luck.

PS What is it about deputy leaders of the Labour party that makes them collect things like jobs, houses, jags & shags ?

* Hence Hatty 4.0

Gordon defeated by Cameron at PMQ

Good tactics from Cameron. Gordon struggled with the detail. At one point complaining he's only been in the job for 5 days. He then undermines that excuse by talking about how he knows about these things from his days in the treasury.

You can tell he's rattled as he stopped being able to look David Cameron in the eye and reverted to his old crutch of looking at Gorbals Mick (the ex-Labour speaker ).

Gordon's old front bench look depressed except for Jacqui Smith who keeps trying to mouth his answers for him.

Even Ming Campbell is landing punches !

Now the new chairman of Celtic (John Reid) is up trying to give Gordon the answers he messed up earlier with Cameron. Great stuff. John Reid is telling him not to be partisan - really...

Oh its getting better - he's just been asked why minister of defence is a part time job. Some drivel about web sites - even Gorbals Mick has to ask for quiet so the house can here Gordon Brown answer the question. Which of course he can't and doesn't.

Just seen another question by Bacon - good again and has Gordon off balance. I started by saying David Cameron had won this - but really its the whole parliamentary party.

PMQ are going to be a happy hunting ground for the future !

Update: Don't just take my word for it - listen to sketch writer Andrew Gimson from the Telegraph here Gordon's grim day

Further : It appears I was being kind - see also Waking Hereward.

Brownian hypocrisy "We will do nothing to put at risk the Union."

Question: Remember who campaigned over many years to make England a second class nation?

Ans: Gordon Brown.

Here's the picture -

Instead of giving England equal recognition he's trying to balkanise out country to prevent the Labour party losing its easy supply of English tax payers to fleece and send the money north. ( See response of English votes for English matters here. )

Here's what he signed before when he swore to put Scotland's interests first ( and he's certainly been doing that !).

Update : See Simon Heffer on this in the DT Weds.

Gordon Borown's plans to rig the electoral system in his favour

Apparently Gordon Brown is proposing the following measures:

1) Regional committee's of MP - but only for England which doesn't vote for his party. In Wales and Scotland they will continue to have devolved administrations.
2) Elections at weekends - when Tory voters are more likely to be away.
3) Electoral age lowered to 16 - because Labour think they will get more votes from those who don't pay taxes and haven't had enough experience of the types of blatant attempts to manipulate the system that they're pulling just now.

Labour is trying to rig the system in its own favour. Just like with the guaranteed postal voting fraud initiative they carried out against everyone else's advice and wishes, or when they changed the electoral voting registration system to get rid of people who vote Tory and live overseas or are in the armed forces.

They can't be trusted. And Gordon Brown will do whatever he has to to favour Scotland and the Labour party.

They are beneath contempt. They are the enemies of England.

Update: Nadine Dorries (you may have to scroll down as I can't find a permlink) has a similar idea and points to this on the Daily Express site.

Denis MacShane is right on Islamists and terror

Denis MacShane has an important article on facing up to what is the real cause of the current wave of terror - Islamism. Read it here ...

He has a point in his criticism of David Cameron saying we shouldn't use the word Islamist. But it is of course nothing compared to his own party's Mayor Livingstone's excuses.

However - I also maintain that the weakness we have shown against terrorism in Northern Ireland and Spain has shown in Madrid/Iraq has helped to encourage these psychopaths.

Where do the terrorists come from ? Answer they are cultivated.

It appears Jihadi Mouse has been killed off - beaten to death by an Israeli agent. Have a look at the link - even Al Beeb can't hide the bigotry.

You couldn't make this stuff up - but the Islamicists can.

Q: Where does the hate come from ?
A: Its indoctrinated in the children by evil men and women.

YAB take note.

Jihadi Mouse is still available on Youtube - an example below...

Gordon's debt time bomb

Gordon and his little servants (Ed Balls & co) are busy executing their strategy to destabilise David Cameron's leadership. Which is why we need to see it for what it is, and not to provide support for the enemy as Janet Daley has done today in the Telegraph. (I'm normally a big Janet Daley fan - and am just a willing to criticise my own party, but her timing is off now.)

But one part of the strategy - creating uncertainty about the election and the launch of the "We can't guarantee David Cameron being leader at the next election" meme by Ed Balls, may be closer to the truth.

People assume that Gordon Brown won't go for a smash and grab general election as he's too cautious / cowardly. But what if he has little choice ? He understands how badly in debt Britain is. He has already started cutting back on spending in England ( Schools and Hospitals) - but not Wales and Scotland were Labour gets its MPs from.

Future revenues from pensions have been brought forward in time and confiscated from peoples pensions by Gordon Brown's five billion a years raid on pensions. The use of PFI has run up the government's credit card, off balance sheet of course. ( Perhaps as one of his acts of spin reforms he's announcing he could bring that debt back on the books ? No - thought not.)

But equally badly the British people have over stretched themselves. Their debt is also unsustainable - and cannot keep increasing to finance Gordon's ever increasing, and unreformed - specifically blocked by Gordon Brown - public sector.

Don't take my word for it - there's an article in this weeks Economist on debt that explains that servicing of debts is now at its greatest burden since that day ( and it was only a day Labour Trolls note ) when interest rates went to 15% as we fell out of the ERM that Labour and the Lib Dems wanted us in so badly.

Gordon Brown has done for prosperity what Neville Chamberlain did for peace - made the day of reckoning much more painful ... We need to make sure the people understand what has been done in case Gordon goes for an early election.