I don't know why Tony Blair thought that it was appropriate that he should attend the Service of Remembrance held yesterday following the end of the Iraq War. If I had been one of the injured soldiers or parents of fallen soldiers I would have reacted exactly the same as the father who refused to shake his hand.
We now know that Blair has been accused of committing perjury in the House of Commons. His interpretation of some dodgy intelligence caused us to follow George Bush into Iraq for regime change (and probably some dodgy business deals as well).
Our troops were despatched to war ill-equipped with no plan for peace.
I suspect that the Blairs are rapidly becoming one of the most hated couples in the country. Most of us would happily see him desptached to The Hague to answer charges of being a war criminal. Instead we are likely to see him fill his boots yet again when he is appointed President of Europe.
A president of Europe who would hardly dare set foot on any street in Britain is a very poor advert for the European Union. I just really hope that sometime, somewhere events will catch up with the Blairs because they have milked every situation for their own ends. One day, one day.....
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Thursday, 8 October 2009
David Cameron
I am watching David Cameron giving his closing speech at the Tory Party Conference. He is giving one helluva kicking to the NoLab party and one thing is becoming clear our two major parties have swapped shirts at half time! If even a fraction of David Cameron's ambitions can come to fruition then the Tories will become the party with a social conscience.
Policy after policy is ripping up the 'big government' approach by NoLab and handing power back to the people. He has a helluva challenge ahead of him but he sounds as if he has got his finger on the pulse of the streets. Every sentence is designed to win back the votes of the heart of our country. He has recognised everything that is rotten at the heart of NoLabs policies. He has underlined and emphasised all of the issues which are at the core of our misery.
This man could be a Prime Minister!
Policy after policy is ripping up the 'big government' approach by NoLab and handing power back to the people. He has a helluva challenge ahead of him but he sounds as if he has got his finger on the pulse of the streets. Every sentence is designed to win back the votes of the heart of our country. He has recognised everything that is rotten at the heart of NoLabs policies. He has underlined and emphasised all of the issues which are at the core of our misery.
This man could be a Prime Minister!
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Our huge Debt!
If the speech from George Osborne today at the Tory Party Conference is to be believed then this country is almost bankrupt and will be bankrupt if we continue to allow NoLab to run the country. It is quite clear that our National Debt is incredible which makes me wonder what formula Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were using to lose so much money.
We are one of the most taxed countries in the world. We are crippled by tax and yet somehow they have managed to get rid of it all. How? Where has this money gone? Are they on drugs? How can a country which was so well placed now be so poverty stricken? How can the MPs spend so much money on themselves when we are in such a dire strait?
I say yet again why do we squander so much money on foreign aid? Why can't George Osborne declare that Foreign 'Aid', should it be 'Bribe', from Britain is no longer affordable. With regard to Europe someone once commented on this blog that we have to support the countries who have less than us. It was called redistribution of wealth so we have redistributed our wealth and now will we get anything back?
I personally have witnessed the huge expenditure in Spain. Now we risk being the poor relations of Europe. We now have massive debt partly due to our membership of the EU so when will the French and the Germans begin to support our debt. Don't hold your breath!
Successively both the Tories and NoLab have thrown our money at Europe. The policies laid out by George Osborne today don't even scratch the surface of our problems. If you really want to get this country back on track then the real answer is our foreign policy. We pull out of Europe, examine our roll in Afghanistan and stop all forms of foreign aid.
The poorer members of the public service should not be made the scapegoats for the money that our foreign policy is squandering. This is the crux of the matter. Barack Obama knows that we are no longer a world power. NoLab have proven that so why do we retain Trident, why are we playing such a leading role in Afghanistan and why are we subsidising the 'Pigs' (Portugal,Italy Greece and Spain)?
The politicians must understand that in order for this country to survive then we must become Switzerland. Our colonial past must be shed. We must become what we are; an impoverished former power who no longer can compete on the world stage. If we do that then perhaps out indigenous children have a chance of survival.
We are one of the most taxed countries in the world. We are crippled by tax and yet somehow they have managed to get rid of it all. How? Where has this money gone? Are they on drugs? How can a country which was so well placed now be so poverty stricken? How can the MPs spend so much money on themselves when we are in such a dire strait?
I say yet again why do we squander so much money on foreign aid? Why can't George Osborne declare that Foreign 'Aid', should it be 'Bribe', from Britain is no longer affordable. With regard to Europe someone once commented on this blog that we have to support the countries who have less than us. It was called redistribution of wealth so we have redistributed our wealth and now will we get anything back?
I personally have witnessed the huge expenditure in Spain. Now we risk being the poor relations of Europe. We now have massive debt partly due to our membership of the EU so when will the French and the Germans begin to support our debt. Don't hold your breath!
Successively both the Tories and NoLab have thrown our money at Europe. The policies laid out by George Osborne today don't even scratch the surface of our problems. If you really want to get this country back on track then the real answer is our foreign policy. We pull out of Europe, examine our roll in Afghanistan and stop all forms of foreign aid.
The poorer members of the public service should not be made the scapegoats for the money that our foreign policy is squandering. This is the crux of the matter. Barack Obama knows that we are no longer a world power. NoLab have proven that so why do we retain Trident, why are we playing such a leading role in Afghanistan and why are we subsidising the 'Pigs' (Portugal,Italy Greece and Spain)?
The politicians must understand that in order for this country to survive then we must become Switzerland. Our colonial past must be shed. We must become what we are; an impoverished former power who no longer can compete on the world stage. If we do that then perhaps out indigenous children have a chance of survival.
Gordon Brown v General Sir Richard Dannatt
I well remember Gordon Brown many times at PM's question time declaring to the House of Commons that the army had sufficient manpower in Afghanistan. Ths question has arisen more than once and every time we have been assured that everything is fine.
Now the former Head of the Army General Sir Richard Dannatt has declared in public that he asked for more men and was turned down. Downing Street has denied that this was not the case. Now General Dannatt is highly respected in military circles and would have absolutely no reason to lie. Gordon Brown is not respected by anyone unless they owe him their livelihood and had every reason to lie. Neither is it the first time that he has been accused of tampering with the truth.
If it can be proven that he lied it should be time for impeachment. I cannot think of any former PM who in a relatively short time has done so much damage to our country. He deserves a very sticky end but will probably sail off into Europe to make his fortune.
Now the former Head of the Army General Sir Richard Dannatt has declared in public that he asked for more men and was turned down. Downing Street has denied that this was not the case. Now General Dannatt is highly respected in military circles and would have absolutely no reason to lie. Gordon Brown is not respected by anyone unless they owe him their livelihood and had every reason to lie. Neither is it the first time that he has been accused of tampering with the truth.
If it can be proven that he lied it should be time for impeachment. I cannot think of any former PM who in a relatively short time has done so much damage to our country. He deserves a very sticky end but will probably sail off into Europe to make his fortune.
Monday, 5 October 2009
National Service or Community Service?
If we are to believe the government and the Americans, winning the war in Afghanistan is vital for the future of world security. If that is the case and I don't know if I believe them, then the western world must throw everything that we have at the Taliban. To my mind that means ALL our partners in Europe offering up every available troop that they can muster but it means more.
The Defence Minister, Bob Ainsworth, on a recent visit to the war front was told, by a Staff Sergeant in the Bomb Disposal team that the most vital requirement was more troops on the ground.
According to David Cameron we have millions out of work, many of whom have never contributed to the country's economy and have no intention of doing so. We all know that this is true and the likelihood is that they are actually unemployable. So what do we do with them?
I personally don't think that any able bodied person should be allowed to sit at home sponging off the state. The fact that they are doing so, in a time of war, when some of their mates are being killed and maimed is even more disgraceful. The problem is that this government is not acting as if we are at war. There is no war cabinet, there is nobody briefing the press, they don't seem to be aware that our boys and girls are really in action. Back in 1982 when Maggie went to war it was done properly; we were at war and we all knew it. That is the difference.
We need more troops on the ground and yet the Generals are repeatedly saying that we have not got the troops. Troops need rest and recuperation. This war appears to be intense and reading between the lines we are struggling to retain any ground that we have won. It is surely time to up the pace.
The NoLab government have spent billions on quangos and committees most of whom have been formed to assist the government. If The Tories have any sense and want to save money they will disband all these useless committees and make them redundant. Fine but what do we do with them then? Some of them are very capable who have just been helping the wrong people.
We now have two groups of unemployed but they must be put to work so what do we do with them? Well we are at war so we should give the workshy an opportunity to contribute. Many of them are tough guys who just don't want to work or who prefer to work out of the system and not pay taxes. We should give them all a choice. We are at war and so you have two choices you either work for the country or you work for the forces but you do not sit on your backside doing nothing.
All the people who will lose their jobs because they are non-jobs created purely to prop up the NoLab government should be offered the chance to work for the country. They should be offered the chance to join the National Community Service.
The workshy and those who work on the Black Market plus the illegal immigrants who do not have the skills to assist the Community Service should have the option of joining National Military Service. There can be no hiding place. This scheme would also ensure that any military member who has served the country has an automatic roll to play in the Community Service thus ensuring that nobody who has put their lives at risk for the sake of the country will ever have to sleep out rough in despair.
The choice is clear. We are at war. Everyone, bar the severely disabled, should contribute. Nobody should be exempt national duty. National duty has always been a pre-requisite in the time of war (remember the Land Girls). This could be the final solution to our problems. We would have no unemployed, apart from the severely disabled, because everybody could do something. Even if they can do nothing then they should be enforced to attend a centre for the totally useless!! Then they pick up rubbish!
In this time of National Emergency we can enforce employment for everyone but then why have the Political Class not gone down this route...and the answer is...???
We are at war. We therefore can mobilise every person like they did in 1939. If we do not mobilise everyone available then we are reneging on the lads and lasses who have lost their lives. They are fighting this war. It is not a joke. The problem is that only the good citizens of Wootten Basset seem to have understood the significance of the war in which our young guys/girls are being killed.
If this bloody war is so important then why are we all not being required to contribute? It is either important or we bring the guys and gals home. If it is important then we all get involved. That means all of us... all the shysters, the uninvolved, the rabid street rats and the illegal immigrants. Hell we have never had a better excuse to sort out the country! How many people who want to come here would want to come if their first act was to sign up to fight the Taliban?
It is time to give the takers a choice. This country is at war and you have a part to play!! Ha! No more camp at Calais then!!
The Defence Minister, Bob Ainsworth, on a recent visit to the war front was told, by a Staff Sergeant in the Bomb Disposal team that the most vital requirement was more troops on the ground.
According to David Cameron we have millions out of work, many of whom have never contributed to the country's economy and have no intention of doing so. We all know that this is true and the likelihood is that they are actually unemployable. So what do we do with them?
I personally don't think that any able bodied person should be allowed to sit at home sponging off the state. The fact that they are doing so, in a time of war, when some of their mates are being killed and maimed is even more disgraceful. The problem is that this government is not acting as if we are at war. There is no war cabinet, there is nobody briefing the press, they don't seem to be aware that our boys and girls are really in action. Back in 1982 when Maggie went to war it was done properly; we were at war and we all knew it. That is the difference.
We need more troops on the ground and yet the Generals are repeatedly saying that we have not got the troops. Troops need rest and recuperation. This war appears to be intense and reading between the lines we are struggling to retain any ground that we have won. It is surely time to up the pace.
The NoLab government have spent billions on quangos and committees most of whom have been formed to assist the government. If The Tories have any sense and want to save money they will disband all these useless committees and make them redundant. Fine but what do we do with them then? Some of them are very capable who have just been helping the wrong people.
We now have two groups of unemployed but they must be put to work so what do we do with them? Well we are at war so we should give the workshy an opportunity to contribute. Many of them are tough guys who just don't want to work or who prefer to work out of the system and not pay taxes. We should give them all a choice. We are at war and so you have two choices you either work for the country or you work for the forces but you do not sit on your backside doing nothing.
All the people who will lose their jobs because they are non-jobs created purely to prop up the NoLab government should be offered the chance to work for the country. They should be offered the chance to join the National Community Service.
The workshy and those who work on the Black Market plus the illegal immigrants who do not have the skills to assist the Community Service should have the option of joining National Military Service. There can be no hiding place. This scheme would also ensure that any military member who has served the country has an automatic roll to play in the Community Service thus ensuring that nobody who has put their lives at risk for the sake of the country will ever have to sleep out rough in despair.
The choice is clear. We are at war. Everyone, bar the severely disabled, should contribute. Nobody should be exempt national duty. National duty has always been a pre-requisite in the time of war (remember the Land Girls). This could be the final solution to our problems. We would have no unemployed, apart from the severely disabled, because everybody could do something. Even if they can do nothing then they should be enforced to attend a centre for the totally useless!! Then they pick up rubbish!
In this time of National Emergency we can enforce employment for everyone but then why have the Political Class not gone down this route...and the answer is...???
We are at war. We therefore can mobilise every person like they did in 1939. If we do not mobilise everyone available then we are reneging on the lads and lasses who have lost their lives. They are fighting this war. It is not a joke. The problem is that only the good citizens of Wootten Basset seem to have understood the significance of the war in which our young guys/girls are being killed.
If this bloody war is so important then why are we all not being required to contribute? It is either important or we bring the guys and gals home. If it is important then we all get involved. That means all of us... all the shysters, the uninvolved, the rabid street rats and the illegal immigrants. Hell we have never had a better excuse to sort out the country! How many people who want to come here would want to come if their first act was to sign up to fight the Taliban?
It is time to give the takers a choice. This country is at war and you have a part to play!! Ha! No more camp at Calais then!!
Sunday, 4 October 2009
David Cameron and Europe
I listened very carefully this morning when David Cameron was on the Andrew Marr show and I remain unconvinced. He has a problem. He wants to win the election and knows that if he tells us that he will hold a referendum on Europe he will landslide in. So he dangles the prospect of a referendum but there are conditions and he is rather reluctant to come clean.
He looked awkward when being questioned by Marr and he normally looks confident. Ok I know that Marr is a BBC type champagne socialist who likes to be rude to Tories but allows Mandelson almost a free reign to regurgitate his socialist dogma. He tried to tie Cameron down as to how much he is worth but we all know that Cameron married an Astor and comes from money. He never asked Mandelson how much he is worth and we all know that only a few years ago Mandelson could not buy a house in London without assistance.
As I have blogged before I believe that this political class are all in the same boat and they are all rowing as hard as they can to sail into Europe without giving us a vote on it. If Cameron promised a referendum he would upset an awful lot of people (mainly bankers, press barons and industrial tycoons) who have plotted long and hard to enslave the public.
That is the real reason that I don't believe that we will get one. Cameron intends to promise it but actually believes that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified before the election. He can then throw his arms in the air and exclaim that the referendum is no longer necessary because it has all been settled.
I will never understand why all the Euro sceptics don't band together for the next election and ensure that we have an alternative. I believe that anyone who pledges that we would leave Europe would gain a majority. Perhaps Nigel Farage (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP) and any other fringe group should sit down and hammer out an interim plan of action. The next election could then become a battlefield Europe IN or OUT!
He looked awkward when being questioned by Marr and he normally looks confident. Ok I know that Marr is a BBC type champagne socialist who likes to be rude to Tories but allows Mandelson almost a free reign to regurgitate his socialist dogma. He tried to tie Cameron down as to how much he is worth but we all know that Cameron married an Astor and comes from money. He never asked Mandelson how much he is worth and we all know that only a few years ago Mandelson could not buy a house in London without assistance.
As I have blogged before I believe that this political class are all in the same boat and they are all rowing as hard as they can to sail into Europe without giving us a vote on it. If Cameron promised a referendum he would upset an awful lot of people (mainly bankers, press barons and industrial tycoons) who have plotted long and hard to enslave the public.
That is the real reason that I don't believe that we will get one. Cameron intends to promise it but actually believes that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified before the election. He can then throw his arms in the air and exclaim that the referendum is no longer necessary because it has all been settled.
I will never understand why all the Euro sceptics don't band together for the next election and ensure that we have an alternative. I believe that anyone who pledges that we would leave Europe would gain a majority. Perhaps Nigel Farage (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP) and any other fringe group should sit down and hammer out an interim plan of action. The next election could then become a battlefield Europe IN or OUT!
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Parking outside the House!
I bought my house almost twenty five years ago because the mortgage runs out next year. In all of this time we have parked one car in the driveway and one on the frontage. Suddenly in July my daughter and my wife received a flurry (two each in two days) of tickets for parking outside of the house.
It has subsequently transpired that in March 2009 a notice was placed in the local paper that passed the enforcement of parking regulations from the police to the council. Seven households are affected by this change of enforcement because we are the houses who have double yellow lines outside the house. The rest of the road (200 yards) can still park on the extended tarmac surface off the road and infront of their houses. There is no obstruction to pedestrians, no obstruction of view and no danger to anyone but the council have decided to prosecute. Only seven households are affected but nobody informed us.
We got annoyed. This charge is unfair because we have conducted our lives in accordance with the police attitude to this strip of tarmac. We had our drive paved and if we had known that we could not park on the tarmac outside of the house then we would have created three parking spaces.
There is a legal precedent which supports the defence that if no problem has occurred despite the legal white lines then people should not be prosecuted. We are fortunate that we have, in our family, someone who is well versed in the law and he is advising us.
These penalties are unfair. These penalties are a ludicrous attempt by the local authority to revenue generate from seven families. The press will soon be involved if common sense does not prevail. The battle lines are drawn.
It has subsequently transpired that in March 2009 a notice was placed in the local paper that passed the enforcement of parking regulations from the police to the council. Seven households are affected by this change of enforcement because we are the houses who have double yellow lines outside the house. The rest of the road (200 yards) can still park on the extended tarmac surface off the road and infront of their houses. There is no obstruction to pedestrians, no obstruction of view and no danger to anyone but the council have decided to prosecute. Only seven households are affected but nobody informed us.
We got annoyed. This charge is unfair because we have conducted our lives in accordance with the police attitude to this strip of tarmac. We had our drive paved and if we had known that we could not park on the tarmac outside of the house then we would have created three parking spaces.
There is a legal precedent which supports the defence that if no problem has occurred despite the legal white lines then people should not be prosecuted. We are fortunate that we have, in our family, someone who is well versed in the law and he is advising us.
These penalties are unfair. These penalties are a ludicrous attempt by the local authority to revenue generate from seven families. The press will soon be involved if common sense does not prevail. The battle lines are drawn.
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