The new Chinook's are just combat replacements

The UK is losing about 2 Chinooks a year at the moment.

It has just ordered 22 over 10 years. ( Note they will turn up when the US is willing to defer the ones its ordered from Boeing. )

That's loss replacement rate - and doesn't even cover the general wear and tear.

This from Gordon Brown who cut the UK helicopter budget by £1.4 billion when he thought no one would notice.

So folks is just spin again and re-announcements.

But it makes great cover for the desperate cuts to defence spending Brown is having to rush out to save a run on the bond markets.

PS Odd the BBC doesn't pick this up ( just kidding - of course its not odd at all after all the BBC is institutionally left wing )

More reviews - more spin - more Labour

Jack Straw is trying the "nothing to do with us" ploy on the plan to imprison less rapists and thugs by just giving them a telling off and sitting them on the local police naughty step for 5 mins - and save the government a great deal of money. ( It will also improve crime detection rates - as the police will become very familiar with who's doing all the criminal activity as they've just told them of last week ).

Jack says that, given there's going to be a TV programme about it, he'll set up a review (copyright (C) Gordon Brown and do nothing associates 2007 ).

The review ploy is being rolled out to increase student fees for Tory voters (that's what this means when you add in all the guff about social inclusion etc). The review is to be carried out by that good mate of Lord Mandelson who had to resign from BP. I wonder what conclusion he'll come to ?

The reviews serve the same purpose - to help with media management and to deceive the voters from true intentions.

Mandelson trying to spin the Rover report - typical Labour

He's the master of the dark arts. Just listening to him try and focus the Rover fiasco on disbaring the Alchemy managers as directors is a wonder to behold.

No mention of Labour part it the Rover down fall. No mention of the Chinese getting the better of Gordon Brown ( and therefore the long suffering English Taxpayer ). no mention of the pre election bribe using public money to keep Rover's collapse till after the 2005 election.

Same old evil Labour - but you have to admire the master as he practices his art.

The green shoots of spin start to get ready

So we have the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors ( who usually predict a rising property market - even just before the crash - I wonder why ? ) saying the housing market is off again ( their spokesperson almost certainly has their fingers crossed behind their back ) and the *government funded* National Institute for Economic and Social Research saying the recovery is coming. ( The Guardian and BBC are lapping this stuff up of course ).

Mean while the Bank of England hits the panic button again for another £50billion of government spending - sorry Quantitative easing due to the their view that UK recession "appears to have been deeper than previously thought".

The Bank of England is not independent - its board have been appointed under Labour.

What Labour want is a recovery to hold a general election in - whatever the disastrous consequences of doing so.

There is now a very large pile of cash being held on deposit at the Bank of England by the banks.

All the BoE needs to do to trigger its rapid dispersal into the economy is to start charging for the service of looking after it.

That would create a temporary blip in the economy just at the time of an election.

The Con could be on.

Further: Jeff Randal seems to get it.

On Andy Coulson

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

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

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

Right now this looks like muck racking from Labour.

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

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

Labour's plans are Evil and are intend to take us all for fools

I just heard Lord Mandelson's broadcast on R4's Today this morning ( because it was more of a broadcast than an interview - despite the PoD complaining about Evan Davis trying to get him to focus on the question - Labour have never done this since New Labour started it, part of their plan for deceit and undermining democracy through lies and spin. They are now clearly the Evil party ).

Mandelson issued the new view of reality which explains why you shouldn't have the normal spending review before the general election in case it provides information to the electorate about what you are really going to do ( making the lies, smear, deceits and scheme's that his pupil Gordon Brown intends to rape our democracy with impossible to achieve - remember Labour are Evil .)

How do they intend to carry this off ?

By issuing a series of unfunded "rights", which will take longer than the period that the next general election must be held within to prove to be unfunded (evil).

By using economic activity and unemployment as an excuse after the general election for having to make the 7% across the board departmental cuts their own figures show to be needed. This allows them to deny their own figures till after the electorate has been conned to vote for them (evil).

By bearing false witness about other peoples plans. Specifically the Conservative who as a first pass have used the governments own figures from the budget ( something Labour seem unwilling to do ). ( evil and direct breach of one of the 10 commandments ).

But then when you make the unelected Prince of Darkness effectively Prime Minister to hold up the defeated and unelected winner of the gutless coup what do you expect?

There will be some Labour party members who would support Labour if they made Pol Pot their leader, but there must still be some with a conscience and at least some decency who will put country before the careers of the demons in charge of Labour right now. There time to act is now.

PS I should add at one point in his R4 party political broadcast, because that's what interviews with Labour demons ministers now are, he accused the Conservatives of entering into a Faustian pact. Nice to see the PoD has a sense of humour ...., or was its a Freudian slip ?

Update: It seems a Treasury spokeswoman ( was refered to in BBC radio and online reports this lunch time see here ) has refused to confirm that the spending review which everyone believes will force cuts on any government will be delayed beyond the general election. Was Mandelson speaking without authority or is either Darling or Brown getting cold feet about the whole "lie to the electorate" thing ?

"Poor Gordon Brown - lets feel sorry for him" - new Labour deceit plan

The smoke and spin coming out of Number 10 has just increased dramatically. Someone else is trying to pull the wool over the electorates eyes and help destroy the country by continuing the most disastrous premiership since Neville Chamberlain for a few more despicable and staggeringly expensive days.

Simon Lewis is to try to extent the country's suffering using his skills.

Its like a horror move where the monster is never dead. You think you've woken up and its all over, but then articles start appearing in papers to reposition Brown ( even Cherie Blair chipping in - what can have motivated her to do that ? ;-) ).

Brown claims he could walk away and become a teacher ( yeah right ). We have Roy Hattersley on the radio this morning complaining about prime minster's questions ( a form of debate that Labour manipulated in 97 to make it more favourable to their man ). We have the setting Brown up as the underdog strategy.

And all the while the country sinks further and further at an ever accelerating rate weighed down by Gordon Brown's millstone of debt just so selfish PR people can try for a triumph over the electorate.

Still Peter Mandelson achieves his mission of keeping out the Conservatives till Lisbon is ratified by the bullied Irish.

The Labour spin line du jour

Is to blame "Expenses" and "the World economic crisis" ( at least they've learnt to stop smearing the US ). This must be in todays "what words to come out of your mouth" email.

Its typical. I've never seen a half honest assessment of election results from a Labour politician since New Labour came into existence. They just read out what their pager (remember the days ?) and blackberry tell them.

The interviewer asks the question "What do you think ....? ", but with Labour its never answered as what you get is what they can remember of the party line today.

This sort of mindless obedience, which is enforced by the vicious bullying operation run by Gordon Brown's associates, seems to carry on in government also. We know Blair just saw the whole cabinet as window dressing round his sofa. Brown swore he'd change that, but obviously is still very dismissive of members of his government.

One of the reasons for the paralysis of Labour's government ( as evidenced by the very light legislative programme ) is the lack of independent thought from an ever shallower pool of talent ( which is in part why Labour now has to appoint people to the Lord's to cover up the inadequacies of the people it has as MPs and their lack of talent - or worse in Labour eyes- their lack of dumb loyalty to the Dear Bully ).

Labour are sinister and it is now clear that most of their MPs are cowards who put keeping a general election away and money flowing from the tax payer into their pockets far higher as a priority than the country they claim to serve.

Its time for Conservative commentators to start pocking fun at the lack of free thought int he Labour party and its slavish devotion to the spin that comes from Downing street and its dark heart.

Remeber "Blair denies 'Labour smear' over Tory cuts" - 2005 ?

For those who think that the final undeniable exposure of Labour's spin and smear operation just impacts personalities and "tittle tattle " ( Copyright 2009 The Prince of Darkness , use acknowledged ) consider the impact of the Blair/Brown smear and misrepresentation in 2005 of Conservative plans to reduce the rate of expansion of public spending. ( Personally I think this one has Gordon Brown's finger prints all over it ).

Unemployment would rise by 300k ! Teachers, Doctor's and Nurses would be fired en mass. Only Labour would guarantee the fantastically useless "New Deal".

Well we are all now going to pay the price of that distortion and Gordon Brown's plan to destroy the UK's fiances pursuing his political agenda ( a combination of stealth socialism and destruction of the state and personal ambition - ably helped by McPoison, Balls et al ).

If the Conservatives had won in 2005 we would have been in a far better condition to tackle the upcoming financial disaster facing the government. Instead the cuts will be arbitrary, panicked, unplanned, wasteful in themselves ( efficiency savings in Govt almost always seem to require spending yet more money ).

Labour and especially Brown's refusual to even allow rational debate in 2005 about government spending combined with its smears on Conservative spending and immigration plans ( both of which now have been shown to be the right course of action - anyone who denies this perhaps needs to book a session with Dolly Draper, who needs the work ).

Labour clung to power in 2005 through spin, smear, poison, lies and betrayal of our nation.

Mandelson is at the root of Liebour's evil

The Prince of Darkness ( aka Peter Mandelson - forced to resign twice from the Cabinet - sent of to Europe on a very high paid job and back for a third snout in the trough experience with Gordon Brown ) is trying the old Jedi mind trick on the media (aka spin).

He's announcing that the scandal over Labour's dirty tricks campaign run by Gordon Brown long term associates is over. And of course using standard Labour spin deceit techniques he tries to re-write history - most of which is hardly a week old. Get a load of this for pure evil and deception:

Lord Mandelson said ..... the prime minister had acted "so decisively and quickly in getting rid of him".

This is demonstrably not the case (Brown dithered and apparenetly accepted his old friends resignation only when the pressure was unbearable - when sacking for misconduct was surely required - I wonder if he keeps his gold plated public sector taxpayer funded pension as a result ? ) - but that doesn't stop Mandelson for one minute.

It will be interesting to see how all the MSM commentators who have been rushing out Damian McBride stories react to one of the Liebour Undead who hasn't yet been dispatched by Guido Von Hesling.

Remember the lies, spin deception all came in with the New Labour project and who was at its heart?

Of course the ever faithful BBC runs the story with the prominence that you would expect from the prince's favoured familiar, but unlike the old days on post 97 other views make it into the report - although way down in the article.

Update: Maybe this is the news story Lord Mandelmort is trying to bury with the above absurd statement ?

Despite all the spin and chaff being fired by Labour spin doctors the question of how the email really got out is still open. Since the effect of the email leak has been to strip Brown of man of the thugs who protected his position an internal Labour party source can't be ruled out.

Further: Seems I'm not the only one to wonder if the leaked emails aren't really a smoking gun re-starting the Blairite/Brown civil war.

Get ready for the mother of all re-annoucements

Yes Gordon's at it one more time. We're so used now to the financial disaster that Brown drove us into that we forget his other failings, the most noticeable of which in his early days was re-announcing things 2-3 times, but expecting the compliant media to dole out unthinking credit each time.

Well the G20 is about to finish and the UK tax payer is about to get the bill for hosting Gordon re-election spectacle, on top of the Gordon flies round the world for TV coverage bill. And what's going to make it all worth while ?

Why a re-announcement of what's been said already, only couched in terms that will allow everyone to interpret it how they like, and the media over 12 hours to figure out they've seen it before to buy Gordon the Headlines he craves.

Update: Well the "con is on" as Gordon tries to fool the voters that the outcome was what he always wanted. See Iain Martin on this.

Brown has enjoyed himself tremendously. It may be no exaggeration to say he's had the time of his life. We haven't seen him this happy since he was joking about each telephone call being a new bank failing.

But now comes the second party of the Brown two step con. Part one was the G20 - full of photos, hosting and lets face it acting. Part two will be the budget. That's the point when Brown decides if he his ego is worth bankrupting the country over ( here's a prediction - he'll think it is and the pathetic quisling Labour MPs are too cowardly to put the country first and stop him. )

Update Fraser Nelson has a nice summary of the tricks, spin and deciet Brown has just tried to pull here.

Peter Oborne goes yet further here, he even suggest and names civil servants who have damaged their reputations by allowing the summit communique to be released with their acquiescence.

He slates the "the dodgy and dishonest summit communique".

This is the level that the government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland has been reduced to.

The observations of Jeff Randall

Still haven't done anything productive today - so let me point you at an insightful article by Jeff Randall. I think there are some key observations in it.

I for one am sick to death of the automatic propaganda that comes, mostly from Labour politicians, as answers to interview questions. I'm also fed up with the BBC interviewers on R4 who accept it ( but again only from the Labour party ). R5L does a much better job .....

Fantasy narratives - failing economy

The video of a clip with Tony NcNulty ( Employment minister apparently ) below was highlighted else where at the time, but I've just re-watched it and I think it tells us something important about the current Labour regime.

If you've never seen it before watch it then I'll carry on my point below:



Firstly I have to say I have had the same experience as Tony McNulty's having here with a boss who was a cross between Jeremy Paxman and Alan Sugar. It a mistake you only ever make once, and if your still in employment afterwards you make damn sure your on top of your facts there after.

Tony McNulty is normally a much more assured media performer. But Paxo's right - as employment minister he should have known those details. It rather leaves two possible interpretations:
1) He's not doing his job and should resign.
2) He was not closely involved in the preparation of the announcement and is having to clear up the mess. ( If I were a minister who had been so sidelined I would raise hell and demand assurances that such a thing would never happen again and if I didn't get them resign. )

But now combine this botched announcement with the spin on the graduate internships the government has announced. It proudly used the names of Barclay's and Microsoft - and yet a day latter we discover that neither company will do anything different from what it has done in the past ( ie no new places - just allowing the government to put a cover sheet on their own actions and try to sell it as a new initiative ).

This is the government of the media grid. Establishing the narrative, but neglecting the facts on the ground. Spin before and over truth. Perhaps we should all castigate ourselves that this still shocks us after almost eleven years of Labour.

But worse is to come. The McNulty interview and especially the attention to Rolls Royce with Brown's expensive campaigning on the taxpayers expense visits. We are about to get a reheated version of "the white heat of technology" ploy that Wilson tried to pull on the electorate.

The new jobs will be in green technology, computers etc and from the way he speaks its clear he view it as governments role to bring this about. Or at least it will be the narrative to be used to full the government media matrix's for the next few months.

The reality will of course be very different.

The government doesn't know what its doing. They are making it up as they go along, and anyway what they are really thinking about is how to coble together a narrative that can hold together long enough to get themselves re-elected. As the interview above makes all too terribly clear.

Further: As if to make my point for me - see this quote attributed to an article by Peter Mandelson over on the Daily Dolly:

"Voters know that it is right to plan and invest for the upturn: ensuring that future jobs and growth come from new innovations in areas such as environmental technology, high-tech manufacturing and the creative industries. I am glad that, at least when it comes to the latter, the Labour party itself is now moving to the forefront of new media and online campaigning."

You see the combination of the "White heat of technology" ploy combined with their real interests - not will it work - but can it be used to win an election.

We know government is bad at picking winners (see 1970's), and also that recessions perform an important role in realigning capital to more productive areas. Government interference guarantees the economy will learn little and come out weakened.

Brown's henchmen claim Eurasia loves Big Brother and agrees with his wise course for Airstrip One

It is noticeable how the Brown response to the news that the Germans think they are irresponsible is to try to claim it isn't happening.

Denial ....

Its just internal German politics (Balls then Brown : that idea hasn't lasted 5 minutes )

The Germans agree with us ! You have mis-remembered. ( The boy Miliband today )

Instead of arguing their case, they have to wipe out all opposition. No one can know that anyone else doubts the Dear Leader, except of course the "do nothing" Goldstein supporting Tories.

I watched on Question Time last night and was amazed at the ignorance of some of the audience, and Ester Ranzen has gone completely potty. They have absolutely no idea how much Labour are screwing up our future. Only the Conservatives and now the Germans are trying to tell people, but Labour don't want the debate. They like their supporters brain washed int he spin cycle.

Hence no counter arguments, just denials of the facts from their rebuttal machine.

These are very dark times for our country.

Tractor production to rise in the NHS !!

The Dour Leader has announced that through his genius tractor production will rise in the NHS forever and ever !

Out will go all the things people mention when they say they don't trust Labour on the NHS and in will come things to do the same thing, but that will be harder for people to spot.

For example Nice will approve drugs faster and everyone will have the same access ! But of course we know this can't be the full picture as the money doesn't exist to fund all this ( after all its all been sent to Wales and Scotland to pay for the Celtic socialist utopia's ), so the rationing will be hidden behind stealthy announcements about what works and what doesn't. All health trusts will be forced to do the same thing - so that no one can spot alternative practice or other drugs being used ! We will sell this soviet crushing of initiative as abandoning the postcode lottery - hail the wise and all seeing Dour Leader for his monocular vision !!!

Targets ( mentioned by David Cameron) are unpopular and so will be replaced by quality ! Of course the government will define the terms by which quality will be determined - in effect still setting the targets - but we hope no one will notice.

The enemies of the people, GPs, will be attacked by rounding the traitors up in polyclinics (an old soviet idea from the 1920's ) and making the remainders suffer from patient satisfaction forms ! Slowly they will be replace by more compliant, and less likely to spot expensive diseases, Nurse practitioners.

The Dour Leader cannot be criticised for all this as he will hide behind the profession of Lord Darzi. Some may call this cowardice - but now thanks to the NHS database we know who they are and have cut of any life support they might get in the future.

And of course these 'reforms' will apply only to the English - who failed - like the people who voted for the MDC in Zimbabwe that comrade Mugabe has had to 'persuade'- to vote for the Dour Leader's party at the last election, so the less of them there are in the future the greater the socialist victory will be !

Hail the Dour Leader - Tractor production is up and will rise forever under his wise vision and the NHS Constitution* !

* The word constitution does not imply referendums of any sort - and even if we promised one we would rat on it anyway - that's our moral compass again....

Do you trust Gordon Brown on civil liberties ? 91% don't !

This article on AOL news is asking the question. The results so far are 91% don't !

The result so far... (12:30 17Jun08)

Results:	Votes	Per cent
Yes	174	9%
No	1,690	91%

That must be why he's taking the panicked 'always planned' decision to make a speech on civil liberties today.

Labour - they just do say whatever their focus groups tell them to say and then destroy the country by stealth when they've crushed the debate.

Update on No10 Shamelessness - see the following extract from the Press Assoc:

Mr Brown's speech came days after Conservative David Davis announced he was standing down as an MP in order to fight a by-election on the issue of civil liberties and shortly after 36 Labour MPs rebelled against the 42-day proposal.

Downing Street said that the speech was not intended as a response to Mr Davis, but declined to say whether it was in Mr Brown's diary before the MP's shock announcement last week.

Right - so its the usual disinformation, cowardice and spin then ....

More deception from Gordon, but is his subconscious trying to tell us something ?

Mr Brown has been told that the voters public are worried about the economy. So he's decided to tell everyone he's on their side. The faithful puppy dog article confirming this can be found at the left wing BBC here.

Gordon is of course telling more whoppers and sometimes you have to wonder why (Blair knew how to reassure without actually saying anything of substance ). Here are a few from the BBC's article:

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understands people's fears over the economy and insisted that keeping it on track was his "sole focus". Of course the Prime Minster could never be solely focused on the economy, at least not one who was sane and aware of his duties - that's the Chancellors job and even he has other things to think about. He could have said "Our top priority", or a blairesque "Economy, Economy, Economy", but instead Brown opts for the untruth. Sometime I think his subconscious is desperately trying to get a message out to us with these small untruths and mistakes.

"We are on the side of home owners, business and individuals," he said. That's just bullshit - look at the HIPS , stamp duty raises, the savage anti-Southerner council tax rises, the abolition of the 10% tax rate etc etc.

"We are going to continue, as we did when faced with difficult decisions in 1998 and 2004, to do everything in our power to keep the economy moving forward." What's this moving forward idea ? Again its like he's trying to tell us something without using the words. Moving forwards is an almost meaningless term and portrays the lack of confidence in using any other terms like growth for example.

Update Three Line Whip - also picked up on the "sole focus" lie.

More Catholic spin from The Telegraph

Here are the headlines:

Muslims outnumber Catholics, Vatican says (31/03/08)
Muslims 'to outnumber traditional churchgoers' (26/03/08)

In the first article Damien Thompson ( a prominent Roman Catholic ) goes on to report:

Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican has announced.

Muslims now make up 19.2 per cent of the world's population, outnumbering Catholics at 17.2 per cent, according to the Vatican's 2008 yearbook of statistics.

"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

The none too subtle spin here is that Roman Catholicism is Christianity it its entirety - this is just untrue. There may be a case for arguing that Roman Catholics aren't Christians ( as is made by some Protestants - and the reverse by some Catholics ).

They also fail to divide Muslims into Sunni, Shia and goodness knows what else, as they implicitly divide Christians (dumping the half not approved of by Rome in the process ).

In the earlier article the spin is that Catholic church goers are the only church goers. Just as when the Catholic Church tried to spin that Britain was becoming Catholic ( thanks to our Polish friends ) - when in fact Protestants outnumber Catholics in considerable numbers.

They are throwing their weight around over some political issues ( its not that their is no moral case involved - its just they have been very quiet about many of Labour's other anti-Christian legislation and plans ).

To what do we owe this attempted noise and deception ?

Perhaps the Catholic church is trying to frighten its nominal flock in places like Italy, France and Spain where Catholicism is official, but very poorly supported.

More likely this is part of a campaign to kill of the Church of England (like we need help in that department - ever wonder what Tony - converted to Catholicism as soon as he left office- Blair was thinking of when he appointed Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury ?).

There are signs of a concerted campaign to assert Catholic influence in England as well as to destabilise the Church of England.

Told you it was misdirection

Looks like Balls has been caught trying to divert attention from the failings of Labour's education system to provide parents with the education they would like for their children.

My assumption is that this was part of a smoke screen for the budget ( I'm sure this is where Balls' mind was at that time with his weird growth theories ).

The press association is reporting the following:

Children's Secretary Ed Balls was accused of trying to "bury bad news" of figures that showed nearly a fifth of pupils were denied a place at their preferred secondary school this year.

He released the figures at the same time as making a high-profile statement that "a significant minority" of schools were breaking the law, with some charging parents "many hundreds of pounds" for what should be a free education.

Mr Balls' claims - based on unverified research - made headlines across national and regional media but the official admissions figures received less coverage.

The statistics watchdog has now written to civil servants in Mr Balls' department and stressed that the release of official figures should be "seen to be independent from policy comment" as a matter of "public trust". Full article here

Given that Cameron's slap down of 'childish' Balls is quickly becoming the favourite moment of the budget - even amongst Labour - I think Balls should be worried. There's a lot of us out to get him ;-)

The Budget: Misdirection, spin and leaks are in - must be bad

Misdirection: We've just discovered some schools insist on taking money of parents.

Of course the party of the London Oratory school knows this - as do lots of other left wingers. Its how they get around the prospect of destroying their children's education by leaving them at the mercy of the system. A mate of mine sends his kids to a state primary school that raises £1 million a year - and is populated by the offspring of BBC types, Guardian journalists etc.

Spin: its the world and specifically the American's fault - not ours. So the Treasury not paying of debt in the good times but splurging it on unreformed ( despite the usual Gordon Brown untruthful claim about continuing reform ) is the US fault eh ?

Leaks: Trying to control the news reports by leaking the move on fuel tax. Its just the sort of bypassing of parliament and spin that Gordon Brown promised to stop - but as we now know - he's a liar.