Modern nostalgia

For the attention of Ed Balls MP

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

Reality denial leads to debt denial, ignorant greed and strikes

What is Labour promising ?

Labour is 90% Union funded, and these days that means public sector Union funded ( really tax payer funded as lots of lovely kickbacks are given to the public sector unions such as the pilgrims and the union modernisation fund etc.

And yet do you hear Labour saying it will restore public sector pensions back to where they are now ?

The silence is deafening.

Now striking public sector union people, especially those of you using children and the safety of our country's borders a hostage, not even the main left wing party you fund has any plans to restore pensions to that demands your making.

This is before you take into account the way the last Labour government destroyed private sector pensions ( if you don't know anyone in the private sector then ask ). These are the same people who are expected to pay for your generous retirement who have had there's removed and worse of all have to have their taxes vastly increased to pay for your. ( And by the way due to Labour's debt crisis the annuities on sale this year are 30% lower than previous years - that's right many private sector pensioners are getting a 30% cut ion top of the loses Labour enforced on them due to Brown's stealth taxes and destruction of private sector pension schemes. They are also suffering negative interests rates of between 2-3% - which is effectively a tax on those poor souls who saved anything for their retirement. And yet still you put you greed first by going on strike ! ).

The economy's a mess. Mostly its Labour's mess - the political party most of you support, so your responsible for all the misery and debt denial yourselves also. So there is zero moral case for strike today, and no prospect of getting what you want.

Even if you win some concessions, they will have to be removed in the future as things are just unaffordable as they are. ( When I've mentioned this on twitter I occasionally get some self deluded responses about the rich paying - well the rich will just leave taking their spending and jobs with them making the crisis even worse so your policy of vindictive envy is also self defeating - as the 1970's should have taught everyone ).

So this is a strike that not even Labour support which is routed in reality denial, injustice, greed, and debt denial. Its morally reprehensible and anyone involved should feel the deep shame.

The BBC frames the agenda

Wow - on at least two BBC news outlets with different reporters I've seen the same BBC message.

That message is 'this week will be when people make up their minds - particularly in relation to the strikes on Wednesday'.

Just to tell people what to think the BBC interviewed a thousand people across the country ( ie with a much higher than average public sector worker count - or relatives of such ) and found that 60% supported the insane moon on a stick grind everyone else into poverty demands of the public sector Unions. ( ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 Live ). No context - no explaination of how many polled had relatives who stood to gain from bleeding the rest of the country dry.

The BBC is now setting the terms on how people will think - i.e. its leading the debate.

Fine for the Guardian or Independent ( which as we all know is anything but ), but its a breach of trust for the BBC. But then again its nothing new.

The Lib Dems should just accept at their heart is a vacuum and disband

What is the point of the Lib Dems ? Nobody knows ( not even them ).

Hence there's a re-branding exercise going on.

However, their problem is they are an empty soulless political hobbiest organisation, who exist to win elections and to not be the other two parties.

Time to put the old bird out of its, and everyone else's, misery.

Its likely to happen at the European and UK elections shortly anyway ....

BBC 'impartiality' on display again

Now I know some of us bang on about this a lot, and every so often we catch the BBC our with surveys like the BBC staff self identifying their political leanings through facebook. ( Which has lead to BBC issuing advice to its staff to be more careful about revealing the in built political bias of the staff who work there.)

But here's another strong whiff of smoke from the BBC impartiality gun.

Climategate 2.0 has given us an email of a BBC journalist explaining his allegiance to the AGW cause .. see the most excellent Watt's up with That blog post here. It shows a BBC journalist describing those who question the Warmist religion as Loonies and that they only occasionally allow one of their points through as they have to. But really they know they are talking through their hats. ( Just like the BBC knew the eurosceptics were insane to question the wonderful Euro of course. )

However I do wonder if some in the BBC aren't trying a little harder these days. There was at least the bird blender Panorama exposé and Nick Robinson's series on how govt spends our money ( though I must admit I haven't watched any of it yet, and lets face it they are probably trying to build up their case for continuing after the next licence fee review and charter review which must now be on their radar if - horror of horrors - Labour aren't in power to protect them ).

I suspect the BBC knows its under pressure here, as it knows the charge sheet against it mostly rings true and they suspect they won't be able to get away with their Guardian world view for ever.

Further: Today the BBC has its loyal spin on the discovery that the climate is less sensitive to CO₂ than thought. Yes the bit of research is reported by its swamped in warmist caveats, but never is the explanation that the case for damaging man made global warming relies on other unproven feedbacks. They just can't help themselves.

More email laundry

OK so we have more email leaked from the UEA CRU mob.

Richard Black over at the Green propaganda corporation BBC quotes Prof Mann as follows

UEA says these extracts "have been completely taken out of context".

Prof Mann - cleared of misconduct last year by a panel convened by Penn State - described the new release as "truly pathetic".

"Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human-caused climate change," he told BBC News.

"So they have instead turned to smear, innuendo, criminal hacking of websites, and leaking out-of-context snippets of personal emails in their effort to try to confuse the public about the science and thereby forestall any action to combat this critical threat."

You've got to hand it to the Warmist fanatics - no one does hypocrisy better. They are funded by the scare they perpetuate and they have the gall to accuse others of smearing just after mentioning the "dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry".

Of course the leaker raises a good point (they have release a statement with the leaked emails ) - the billions destroyed in the green industrial suicide pact all means billions of value that can't be spent on good things like saving people's lives or stopping pensioners dying of the cold due to vicious green energy subsides they are forced to pay to rich people who own wind farms and solar panels.

PS I bet its nice and warm in the CRU's offices over at the UEA in winter - perhaps wind farm/solar panel subsiding impoverished pensioners should queue up to be let in for winter ...

Picking winners - guaranteeing one loser , the honest tax payer

So now we have the Coalition government channelling Gordon Brown ( and more worryingly more Bill Clinton - of which more further down ).

On Newsnight last night I saw a normally sane Grant Shapps talking about the need, on Newsnight no less, to "do something"^tm Gordon Brown.

The "Lib Dem lead" Coalition ( as I'm toying with now calling it ) wants tax payers who have paid their debts or who at least repay them to underwrite those who don't. This they call stimulating growth - I call it theft.

What's the plan ? To guarantee 10% of the mortgage of first time buyers, buying new ( in UK terms this means very expensive and likely to crumble egg boxes )homes.

Also in a 180 degr reversal of the common sense on deposits that had been building up they will do so on much lower deposits.

This means they will almost all fall into negative equity almost straight away !

The problem is high house prices - the cause is the insane availability of credit for these assets and this is exactly the wrong sort of thing to do.

Its also very close to the thing that light the touch paper on the current financial crisis, when Bill Clinton insisted that a proportion of mortgages were provided to those who couldn't afford them - setting up the whole basis for the sub prime thing. ( If you get your news from the BBC / Guardian then of course you'll never have heard of this ).

Its desperate and insane.

PS Hat tip to Allister Heath
last night who did at least make a stand for sanity against the "aggregate demand" fruitcakeness of Labour's Katty Usher and some mindless CBI bloke on News night ( and less we should forget the new )Newsnigh.

See also: Allister Heath "Brownonomics makes a shock return"

Farage vs the unelected assassins

Needed saying ...

Youth uneployment

Here's the thing - pension ages are being pushed back. Education will soon be compulsory to 18 with a targeted 50% wanting to continue to at least 21, and youth unemployment is back with avengeance.

News night last night was on the subject with a audience meeting Paxman, Chris Grayling and a me me me look at me David Miliband (who was trying to channel Nick Clegg and his sickly crawling to the audience lines ).

Some of the young people made some sense. Most of them were good at saying what had happened to them, but very poor at understanding why.

One or two showed that they might understand that a media studies degree might not have been a good idea in hindsight. But the majority showed how domesticated by the state system they had become.

Where's the help ? Where are the course and training after University ( mentioned by one young man apparently oblivious to his having been in full time education since the age of 5 for 16 years ! - why did he think a few more months would help ? ) Why can't the state just make more jobs ? The govt must do something !

This is what happens when you raise these poor victims in a socialist theme park that our education system has become. The sense of entitlement and diversity training are there - but the grip on reality is just missing.

Over 75% of jobs go to immigrants in the UK ( almost all of whom didn't have English as a native tongue ). 90% of new jobs created went to immigrants.

The question is why ?

Round where I live plumbers and cleaner advertise themselves as being Polish - as their reputation is so good.

My brother tells me of a friend of his who runs a car wash in Liverpool and employs immigrants as the local unemployed youth don't turn up to work, scare the customers, don't work hard and are a general pain in the neck. ( Perhaps the vast amount of time and money we all spend on education needs to address these issues ).

Its time for a more radical overhaul of how we educate and train our young people.

I have a lot of sympathy for the young people on newsnight last night. They are the victims of socialism and left wing muddled education, and they lack the self awareness to even know it.

This is the sort of thing I mean ...

This post on the most Excellent Biased BBC Blog is the sort of reason I'm no longer a party member.

French planning Vichy Europe

Having installed Quislings in Greece and any second now Italy the new inner Europe axis powers and getting ready to demand every one else surrenders also. ( Nicholas demonstrates the French national dance on the right - its easy just give up all your sovereignty, money and self respect - there's cheese in it you know - the Germans are paying ... ).

The new line to whip the remaining free countries in Europe is to threaten the inner axis ( started with the sinister Frankfurt group* recently - we have no pictures of the event, but it must have been something like the picture below).

Expect very shortly the usual suspects ( Peter Oborne's Guilty Men ) to start bleating on the radio and TV that we have no choice but to be in the Axis powers, and it would be a disaster if we had to trade with a group of countries where we import far more than we export to due to out weak position - hang on a minute ....

Those who have sold their souls to Brussels will shortly be trying to sell their country again. My guess is it'll be on the radio by Monday morning as we are told we can't repatriate any powers and must let a new treaty go through without a referendum due to the world wide emergency the EU bloody minded incompetence has created.

(Below) New EU Treaty getting signed.
















* Yes I know the Frankfurt group is used to refer to a very nasty brand of left wing political thinking also.

Update: The unsubtle truth from the leading nation in the Fourth Reich ( H/T White Wednesday )

Our meta-stable economic world

There have been now shortage of John the Baptists crying out in the desert about debt levels in the western world, and specifically the US & UK.

But there have been far more "smart" people saying debt doesn't matter, and that we need "investment". Its so happened that their approach is much less painless in the short term and helps you win elections.

So that's what we've had. But still our trajectory has been in a direction that we all knew would become unstable.

We all know the public sector pensions are a ponzi scheme, but that you lose the next election if you tell anyone.

No one asked too many question about the house price bubble or the credit splurge that financed it - as you could tax the wave and win the next election on the bribes.

Even the Euro bailouts are pointless in the long term, without harsh economic reform in the South and sacrifice in the North of Europe. ( And we know whilst "kicking the can down the road" is politically popular - and may allow you to win the next election. The reforms ( which will be very unpopular ) will cause you to lose it. )

We are asking political Turkey's to vote for Christmas.

They will fudge, delay, do the stuff that keeps them in office and not the stuff that will get them kicked out. ( Though that has its limits as Ireland, Greece and Italy have found out ).

And as the crisis develops we learn how little of how our world works our leaders really understand. They are experts in politics, getting elected and climbing the greasy pole whilst clubbing others off it. They're lives devoted to the mayflower type moment when they win office and cling to the glory for as long as they can.

They have had the dream, one in which they feature prominently by coincidence, but now reality can no longer be denied.

Democracy is starting to look like its failed.

Those who want to save it had better start rehearsing and making their arguments heard, because if this goes all the way there will be revolution in parts of Western Europe.

How to spend England's money in Wales

A bit busy this week, but here's a diverting suggestion. If you happen not to live in Wales, but you do pay taxes then this week edition of "Dragon's Eye" is worth a half hours watch.

WARNING - Do not watch whilst eating cornflakes as you may choke.

Some of our usual theme's are present - Tory hatred as pushed by the BBC, unopposed assertions at the end of reports ( remember the Welsh NHS is a car crash of socialist neglect and vested interests which makes the English NHS look great - quite an achievement ).

The Welsh Conservative members put up for interview are depressing, and there's no solution to anything that doesn't involve English funded state spending.

Standing order cancelled

If you read this blog often you'll have noted an increasing level of frustration and anger building with my political party, and especially its leadership.

There are a range of issues that this frustration centres on - here's a subset:

• the EU;
• the failure to correct the anti-English devolution settlement;
• the climate change insanity;
• the failure to support marriage;
• the failure to confront the nation on the size of the state, debt and the basic facts of our economic future. Preferring to impoverish our ( and my ) children rather than risk losing office and the end of that all important political career;
  
• the creation of a secular religion around so called "human rights" and "diversity" ( which left wing cant - in terms that no one is allowed to question );
• locally the insane debt levels of Woking council and its non-core interests combined with inviting the notorious WWF to have a spectacular deal on moving to Woking;
  
• the promotion of a new secular orthodoxy at the expense of tradition and our Christian culture, heritage and religion, and;
• the complete and utter failure to get to grips with immigration and the long term future of our nations ( and for that mater emigration ).

Now I know many good people in the Conservative party like Daniel Hannan MEP, John Redwood MP, Tim Montgomery, and as ever Norman Tebbit. Whilst people like that have been in the Conservative party I've been always tempted to remain. But like Roger Helmer MEP I just can't see the point any more, not even to give some small support to such people whom I respect.

If truth be known I can't knock on doors and say vote Conservative, because I may not be doing so at the upcoming elections.

I'm afraid the current leadership have spent all their political capital and now only deeds will do. I'm just not listening to the words any more. ( The staggering lies being spoken as solemn truth all over Europe right now in parliaments, including our own by Chancellor's who do know better just shows the total moral bankruptcy of much of politics in the western world. )

Words have become the fiat currency of politics - devalued and backed by nothing you can take to the bank. As such their is a crisis of confidence.

Clearly other political options present themselves, but I'm in no rush.

My plan is to give things a bit of time and space, after going political walkabout - perhaps I'll even return - I'm willing to be open minded and let things develop.

I know there's an argument for staying to support the other people who have similar views, but the truth is the party membership are solely a cheap postal service who's only other use is to be dressed down by party leaders when they feel like "appealing to the centre ground". The bond of trust has just broken down. Yes I know about the fate of the left as it fragmented and split - but that has been held unreasonably over the heads of those of us on the right who's support the 'modernisers' has just wanted to take for granted.

But the long and short of it is that the author of this blog is no longer a paid up Conservative party member. You can argue that my party has left me, or that I have become more aware and left it. But the standing order's cancelled either way.

Baroness Warsi can expect a resignation letter in the post shortly.

My vote, for the very little it is worth, is now up for grabs.

The Greek prime minister at least understand democracy

A referendum ? On the diktats from out Brussels masters ? Not allowed, impossible, pointless, its the wrong time - oh hold on you can do it after all.

All that's required is for the politicians to be more frightened of their people than their EU masters.

Food for thought.

Greece joins Iceland in demanding the opportunity to be sovereign.