The solution that dare not speak its name

Its time for the Radio 4 Today program panic about social mobility again.

Guess what ? All the fixes, fiddles and plain bodges to get children who's education has failed at state schools into top Universities isn't fitting the targets which have been dreamed up.

They'll try anything - scholarships ( free money for some people taken from others ), summer schools, putting out information that a half consious monkey could figure out for themselves on A levels required. But it not working.

The system has failed since - the Grammar school ruled.

But we must not have selective education !

But of course we already do. Almost every secondary school will stream, and yet the monster comprehensives aren't achieving the same results with their top streams. Why ?

The answer has to to do with wider issues that you get when your in a school with people of similar capability, but not just in a class of them.

Because of the stranglehold the BBC and Guardian have on the windpipe of English education this question will never get asked.

And ugly of class warfare will be called upon instead.

Are you Michael Foot in disguise ?

Oh dear.

Oh dear.

Good and Bad companies ?

Low priority for Council houses for the unemployed ( and of course, inevitably, single mothers ).

We're so sorry for [redefine you Labour failure here - so the real problem isn't admitted to and you can abolish the memory of it by tricking people into thinking something else happened - see flood gates of immigration, over spending, the debt disaster, failure to control the banks, the debasement of education standards etc etc - see Ed Balls for details ].

Oh dear.

Having to practice waving and walking "in human".

Oh dear.

Big brother leaves before little big brother's speech.

Oh dear.

Even the BBC lose the will to live during the great leader's speech and lose the feed.

Oh dear.

The star speech was by a naive, yet photogenic 16 year old who no one has told yet has been sold into debt slavery by the people behind him on the podium. ( update it gets worse as it turns out that young Rory might be ,, ummm, a bit of an actor shall we say. )

Oh dear.

He's not Neil Kinnock , he's Michael Foot in disguise ( without the back story ).

Oh dear.

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Normally I'd try a quick Fisk of the leader's speech, but frankly what's the point in #RedEd's case.

So what will this weekend bring ?

The crisis has been headlining for long enough. The tension, fear and desperation are at designed levels to overcome 'political' obstacles.

Time now for the everyone gives a little ( but more than they think ) compromise.

All over before the markets open on Monday ?

Somethings up ...

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Political add

In some ways you have to admire this political broadcast, in others I'm horrified by it.

The negative part comparing promises to record is fine, but the complete absence of an explanation of the alternative is alarming. Even if Mr Perry is a fine candidate for US President.

I guess its little different from many of the leaflets lots of UK parties put through letter boxes - and I wish I could add but not the Conservatives, but I can't.

A moral victory - but defeat is still more likely than not

The quote of the day has to be from Peter Oborne (H/T Guido and the gang ):

“Very rarely in political history has any faction or movement enjoyed such a complete and crushing victory as the Conservative Eurosceptics. The field is theirs. They were not merely right about the single currency, the greatest economic issue of our age — they were right for the right reasons.”

The problem is that projects like the Euro and the EU have more in common with a Count Dracula tale than a court room drama. They are the undead.

You can win the moral argument, and a few months later those who lost will declare they won ( see Nick Clegg' assertion no one could have foreseen the Euro criss as a classic example ).

The Euro's not dead until its notes are being collected at banks and shoved into furnaces. And the EU won't die until we stop paying the BrusselGeld and shameless traitors like the LibDems stop trying to continually betray their country and sell it into slavery ( and yes there are plenty of similar people in Labour and the Conservative party's).

I wish it was really all over - but it isn't, not by a long shot.

This is just the beginning. You'll notice the gold price has been static as the markets fall and Greece's inevitable default comes very close.

Today is already priced in - the battle of tomorrow has yet to be entertained.

Why they're known as the Fib Dems

Nick Clegg pulled of the stagering dishonesty that many of the Lib Dem opponents think is the signature of the Liberal Democrats.

On the radio he said no one foresaw the problems with the Euro, when challenged on why he had supported UK membership.

The truth ? Plenty of people did. They were many key high profile Conservatives not least William Hague. ( Stuck in a burning with no exit ring any bells Mr slippery Clegg ? )

Why is it necessary for Lib Dems to lie like this ? Because they are seeking electoral advantage by rewriting history. Its what they do all over the country and why they are hated by Labour and Conservative activists with almost equal passion.

This is who the Lib Dems are - they are unable to give an honest answer to a question that everyone knows they are lying about.

This is before the disgusting bile that emerges from Chris Huhne's mouth or that nasty rabble rouser Tim Fallon is considered.

The Lib Dems have a honesty and a morality problem. Personally I think its in part linked to Nick Clegg's atheism.

Anger management

Over the last few months I've been getting progressively more fed up with David Cameron, the Conservative party in general and the European Union in particular.

Angry enough to change a habit of a life time.

Does someone at CCHQ have a device that can detect this level if disquiet in the ranks ?

I ask as suddenly my ears are ringing with Eurosceptic dog whistle noises. Its no enough to drown out the annoyance of the Liberal Democrat Fiasco in the media just now, but its loud neither the less.

What I ask myself is if what's really happening is I'm being managed - along with thousands of other Conservative activists - to get us over our current wave of fury. I suspect the answer is perhaps yes.

Note to CCHQ - we'll be watching announced policy, not William Hague making jokes or trying to sing to Eurosceptic mood music. This really could be our last waltz ...

See also Will Heaven "I'm sick of the 1922 Committee threatening to rebel, then rolling over to have their tummies tickled by David Cameron"

The road to Hell is paved with wishful thinking

As the news rolls in there's two types - emergency measures which are sold as confidence building but turn not to be enough, and the other sort dire.

The Economist tells us that Angela Merkel needs to explain to the German people someone has to pay and its going to be them.

We have George Osborne telling us Britain's interests are in a strong Euro zone ( do you feel you wallet quiver when you read that ? ).

The can is going to get kicked down the road again and its going to cost.

But how did we get here ? The answer is simple - the dishonesty of debt. Governments have given the electorate everything they have wanted ( low taxes high spending ) by using something that's too boring to be understood - debt.

Even if people did try there were the Keynsian apologists to tell them they didn't understand economics and it didn't matter anyway.

We now know where that road leads ...

Can't be long now ....

... all the signs of the great EU stitch up are in play.

My bet is that the North of Europe loses out, in exchange for being enslaved in yet stronger "European Union".

Prepare to have more of your money, freedom and sovereignty stolen ....

The left don't care, they are just selfish about guilt

Just reading Tim Worstall having a go at Melissa Benn's intellectual or moral ( it has to be one of them ) failure on free schools something occured to me that been nagging for a while.

The left are always on about how they care ( see Polly "bleeding heart - but not enough to sell my villa in Tuscany" Toynbee for an example). And yet it s very clear what they espouse doesn't work.

For those who didn't follow the intellectual defeat of the left, there are plenty of practical real world examples.

And yet still they go on ( and on and on - just see the Stalinist dinosaurs at the TUC today ).

I have come to the conclusion that many of those on the right really do care, enough to do the right thing.

On the left they just want to make their personal guilt feeling s go away (see the #LibDems ), and whatever fixes that personal need fastest is what they go with. ( Hence many of the public school educated aristocratic socialists ).

In reality with the left its all really selfish.

We mistake their protestations for an interest in other people when in reality they are just concerned about themselves and how they are feeling.

Discuss ...

Ten years

Avenged, but never forgotten.

A new right wing lexicon

I've been impressed by the power of some words being used in the last few months. Normally language control and manipulation is a left wing thing ( think Diversity etc etc ).

But the use of terms like looters rather than rioters shows how powerful small changes can be.

So I thought why not try and crowd source a new right wing lexicon ? ( Its Friday after all ! )



Please keep things within the bounds of publishable decency and nothing too personal.

Have fun,

MiaS.

PS If the form doesn't work for you try the comments and if they're good I'll add them.

The results (moderated) so far !

Murdo Fraser is right - but only because appeasement has been followed for so long

For most of my political life I've been a ardent Unionist. I was appalled by Labour's devolution plans and remember telling a church of Scotland minister ( who ran a church in London ) that this would eventually lead to the break up of the UK.

But the move and the subsequent referendum result did not surprise me.

That's as I have lived over 3 years in Edinburgh and Aberdeen just before hand. I had seen the continual appeasement of Scottish Nationalism and its fuelling by Labour as a cheap way to get at "The Tories". The Anglophobia was very evident - though Scotland is a very civilised country and the vast majority of its inhabitants know how to behave and are genuinely warm and welcoming to individuals.

Anglo ignorance was even more rife. I was on my way down to a port facility with a fellow worker when half asked me "why to they all hate us in the south of England ?". I had to explain to him that few people, at that time, in England gave much thought to Scotland, and when they did they thought of positive things. But the Scottish media and all those who hadn't been good enough to make it down south had a vested interest in bringing the rewards up North to Edinburgh.

The appeasement started - British Rail became Scot Rail, British Gas - Scottish Gas. Everything had the work Scot as a precursor.

I can remeber walking past a newspaper stand where the headline from Scotland on Sunday was "What's wrong with the English" - it sold papers.

The response from the Conservatives was initially right ( oppose devolution ) but then the appeasement and triangulation set in. But none of it was any good as the terms of the debate in Scotland had been changed for a generation.

David Cameron showed his ignorance of this with his restatement of appeasement to save the Union trip to Scotland early in his leadership.

No one will ever respect someone or a political party that doesn't respect itself.

British politicians have been trying to buy Scottish loyalty with English money and appeasement of English interests for far too long. Yes they pocket each insane concession and smile, but really they despise the lack of self respect involved.

I have a knighted Scottish relative (by marriage) who has been the head of a very austere UK institution who has started voting SNP. When men like that are willing to vote for separation all seems almost lost, it certainly shows a change of strategy is required.

This is why I support Murdo Fraser's idea of reforming the Scottish Conservatives as a separate party. Devolution has happened, and no one seems to want to make the case to reverse it, so we had better follow its logic.

The UK needs to adopt a federal identity - with an English Parliament and government also, or else it will lose all meaning.

Murdo seems to know this. I fear David Cameron is too lazy to think this all through.

Clegg sacrifices the future of children to appease his Guardinista Lib Dem party members

Onto the bonfire go children's futures as that most selfish of parties insists their ideological hatreds are placed ahead of the good education of our children.

Clegg thinks he's being clever trying to save his job by making an issue out of stopping profit for free schools.

But what is he really saying ?

That schools should not be run efficiently, effectively and have parents choose them if they do. ( Which is what the profit motive ensures ).

Remember schools run for profit would have to achieve that by being run far better than other schools.

Here of course is the real objection of the selfish Guardian reader class, many of whom are employed in our education industry who prime objective seems to be employing and paying teachers well, rather than providing a good education.

The Unions and the left are scared to death that our children might be allowed a good education achieved without using the Stalinist approaches they approve of.

Choice is good - profit ensures that the choices are good.

The Lib Dems should hang their heads in shame for the nasty way they are sacrificing the futures of many children just because some of their own membership can't get its heads round basic ideas and facts.

Again the Lib Dems show why they are such an unpleasant political party of selfish people.

How red tape is slowly strangling small business

Here an example from the real world:

A friend of mine's small company (<10 employees) has recently been recruiting.

They have been advised that you can now longer ask anyone about their sickness or attendance records, due to recently legislation.

Therefore they run the risk of not only losing the services of a key employee due to sickness, but also have the life blood of the company drained at the same time as income is lost. They are not allowed to do anything about the risk at interview time.

Their answer ? Sick pay is being cut to its legal minimum, as they don't think they can carry anything else.

These sort of regulations may be fine in civil service offices where people like "Civil Serf" and the former head of the CBI say you could lose half the staff and things would work better.

But its another nail in the private sector's coffin.