Endemic Corruption

The current difficulties facing the FIFA President Sepp Blatter before his 'coronation' later this week only mirror the problems that The Political Class of all faiths consistently fail to address in our wider society. I don't think that any intelligent person truly believes that Qatar is the best placed country to hold a World Cup Final event. Furthermore nobody who has the ability to to analyse really believes that the vote which placed Qatar at the forefront of soccer's premier event was nothing short of 'dodgy'. In my opinion if the vote for Qatar was 'dodgy' then so was the vote for Russia and both 'elections' should be revisited by a new presiding authority

It does not seem to matter where one looks today corruption or the suspicion of corruption rears its ugly head. The headline in today's Daily Mail just about sums up the state of the nation.  The scandal of the public service fatcats and their huge pensions is a national disgrace. I don't know how this culture was allowed to take root or from whence it emanated but of course behind everything that is rotten in our society lies the European Union.

It is only since the inception of this monstrously unaudited organisation run by a relatively small consortium of unelected commissioners that the problems within our society have escalated. The EU has interfered with every aspect of our lives. Our law has been corrupted, our public services have been dissipated and financially embarrassed through the outrageous demands of the fatcats and the quangos, many of themn funded by the EU, have been allowed to prosper despite Tory election pledges of a 'bonfire of quangos'.

Behind the appointment of many of the fatcats lies the furtive and secretive recruitment organisation 'Common Purpose' who I blogged about very early on in the life of this blog. Common Purpose is well known in the blogosphere but never mentioned in the mainstream media not even by the right wing columnists like Melanie Phillips of the Mail.

It is my contention that until we rid ourselves of Common Purpose we will never get sanity back into our public services. We will never regain honesty and we will never allocate taxes back to their original intention of funding Public Services for the benefit of the public. I am becoming increasingly dissappointed by David Cameron. I have so far given him and the Coalition the benefit of the doubt because we cannot afford the Miliband bandwagon back in charge of the country's finance ever again. His support of the EU however undermines any pretence of honesty.

He has so far failed to curb the EU judges, failed to tackle the Human Rights Act which recently was used to free a guy from Nottingham out of prison because he claimed that he was the sole carer of his five children! Nobody however has explained who was caring from his kids when he was out 'robbing' in the middle of the night! We are still being invaded by immigrants from all over the world. Our contributions to the EU climb ever higher. No bonfire of quangos and no curb of public service fatcat pensions and salaries.

The Prison Service is in disarray and no wonder because we have over 10,000 foreign prisoners who apparently cannot be deported because of...you've guessed it...the Human Rights Act! It means that an immigrant can go down to the pub, pick up a slapper, have a one night stand, get her pregnant and lo and behold he has a right to a family life in this country! Nobody can defend that kind of legal corruption. This one piece of legal mumbo jumbo has askewed our legal system out of all belief.

I'm afraid that corruption has beome part of our society. It clearly comes from the very, very, top of our society and won't change until we get rid of them.

Ed Balls

I think that most of us has an opinion about Ed Balls! He comes across as an arrogant bully which may be because he was associated with Gordon Brown. As I write this I am trying to find one redeeming feature which would let him off the hook but frankly Ed Balls is the epitome of the disgust which decent people equate to the Political Class.

Today one of his proteges found herself in court because she presided over a Social Service system which failed to protect a little boy who was horrifically abused by his parents right under the very noses of the people who should have saved him. Everyone knows the case of 'Baby P' and most of us shudder at the ineptitude which allowed the people to torture this little boy.

Today the former head of Haringey Social Services, Sharon Shoesmith, who, in my opinion, was the product of the NoLab/EU production line of useless but financially rewarded 'slaves' won a court verdict which revealed that she was sacked illegally!

The case of 'Baby P' made national headlines. It was horrific! Only the most unfeeling of people would not be ashamed of their part in the death of this little boy. Most of us would crawl into the long grass if we had been part of it but not Sharon Shoesmith. She has been 'unfairly' dismissed and of course legally she was unfairly sacked. Anyone else would die of shame but that brings me back to Ed Balls.

Could any other politician make such a horlicks of the process which required the sacking of an incompetent female? Did he not glance at the rules? Did he not consult a lawyer? He was head of a governmental department which no doubt over employed legal representatives by the dozen but good old Ed did the deed himself to gain the headlines!

Ed Balls fails time after time! He is useless but like so many other failures he is kept alive by the BBC. How can we get rid of them? How can this absolute prat still have support? Sharon Shoesmith, of all people, has just won a  court verdict against him which I suppose just about sums up his judgement. I wonder what his wife (Yvette Cooper) thinks of that?

Libya...what now? Will we have Paras to send in?

The public are beginning to wake up! On Question Time tonight someone asked why we are effectively on 'mission creep' in Libya? The public are beginning to realise that our troops are continually on the front line. Of course this comes hard on top of the news that our government wants to abolish the pay awarded to the Parachute Regiment.

They probably get about £6 a day extra for their additional qualification and that has no bearing on the massive defence economy,. How many bombs have we dropped on Tripoli which would cover the £6 pounds a day awarded to the Paras? No it is clear that someone, somewhere is trying to discourage brave young men from being a paratrooper. How low will they get?

On and on they attack the forces on every front. At every opportunity they discourage the young from joining the forces. It is no longer a 22 year career like it was when I joineed the army. The married quarters have been neglected and so many are being maimed and killed. Someone from 'the powers that be' is hell bent on the destruction of the British Armed Forces.

I served for 25 years but when my late son announced that he was joining the TA I almost begged him not to augment the cannon fodder that so many before him had become. The British Army is persona non grata to the Political Class. They are scared of the British Army. Why?

Well the ethics of their code of honour is alien to the Political Class, their honesty is alien to the Political Class , their loyalty is alien to the Political Class, their sense of duty is alien to the Political Class so of course the Political Class will attempt to destroy this alien force. Witness the antics of Ed Miliband.

If the guys who have faced the Taliban came home and one of their leaders decided to confront the European Union then it could just be the catalyst for a major popular rebellion. The populace is ready. The rebellion has spread to Spain, Greece and apparently to France. Will it spread here? I believe that it will take an extraordinary act  of  treachery before we get  angry.

Sorry I keep banging on but it is inevitable. We cannot keep living a lie. When the rebellion arrives it will not be pretty. Too many people have too much to lose and that is where trained troops under good leadership will win the day and that is why the Political Class keep inventing wars for our servicemen. I smell fear!

Family comes first!

I often rage at the education system which in my opinion totally lets down the kids of today because they have destroyed the standards of yesteryear, wrecked discipline in the classroom and presided over a system which denegrates clever kids. Michelle Obama promoted a cliche yesterday when she announced that 'being bright is cool'. This is a message which has been missing from our state education for twenty years or more.

Bright kids have been forgotten in this country and have often been castigated as 'geeks'. Who wants to be known as a 'geek'? The only kids worthy of consideration seem to be the airheads who regard presentation as being more important than knowledge.

The people who really seem to treasure education are the immigrants. They know the value of qualifications, the rewards of study and the benefits of a healthy mind. They know it because they have had to fight for it! Education in many countries of this world is still not a right and yet our kids ignore it and are allowed to just prat around.

However, I detect a change in many of the schools. I don't think that this has anything to do with the teachers' unions but a desire from individual staffs to do the right thing. Now here comes the pathetic bit ... today my eldest grandaughter got the best SATs results in her class...and my second youngest won the gold medal in a multi sports contest!!!  You can't help yourself can you!!!?

The Protests are growing!

It is amazing just how our mainstream media are blanking out the protests against the EU which are escalating throughout western Europe. The elite socialists have been rumbled almost everywhere but it is not being reported here. So just to balance the books let me point you in the right direction.

The Spanish protests have brought about a collapse in the support for the Spanish socialists but their protests have spread to Greece where protests have once again broken out in downtown Athens.

Eventually the people will speak. It will take time but something as rotten (to the core) as the EU has to be dismantled and destroyed. I hold the EU almost in the same regard as the Taliban and Al Quaida. The all have the same aim and that is to enslave the people. It is a question of power.

A Police State?

Two cases have hit the headlines today which frankly I never thought I would witness in the UK. Firstly a member of the Territorial Support Group has been charged with manslaughter and secondly much closer to my home four members of the police have been charged following the suicide of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter.

This disregard of police responsibility which involves the vulnerable in our society is a serious problem. We are becoming a nation that accepts bullying. We are losing our moral compass and that is particularly prevalent in education where any teacher who confronts bad behaviour almost inevitably faces a disciplinary panel.

It is ominous because if discipline is allowed to break down in the classroom (and it has) then the children cannot learn. Life for teachers in the modern school must  be very
(hell) difficult because their hands are tied when it becomes to the discipline of the difficult kids.

In the modern world created by the EU and the Political Class (both the same) every value that we ever held dear is being destroyed. Our family friendly police force (epitomised by Dixon of Dock Green) has been wiped from the face of our land. Our society is under attack like never before and yet when you see the politicians on TV they appear so reasonable. They do not appear like traitors but if you follow the blogosphere then you begin to understand what is happening.

The British people are beginning to wake up. It has taken a long time but it is happening. Challenges are appearing in court because the Magna Carta has been replaced by an edict from the EU and that cannot happen in this country! It is called treason and if we can just persuade a few members of our traditional ruling class who talk posh to challenge the EU then battle will be joined.

Will we get any convictions?  That is another question.

Libya...mission creep continues!

                                                   Tripoli - a pilot's view

I have quietly been watching the mission creep escalating in Libya because I know that our politicians under orders from the EU will not hesitate to involve the UK armed services in this civil war.  Slowly we are getting more and more involved even though we are supposed to be skint.

Where is the money coming from? How come we can't afford pensions or public toilets because of the austerity programme but we can bomb the hell out of Tripoli and deploy Apache helicopters to join in the fighting?

Why is it so essential to get the British armed forces involved in yet another war? This is our third military excursion in the past fifteen years and on every occasion it has been utterly unnecessary. There is a nasty game developing here and all our major politicians are involved. It appears to me that there is a determination to weaken our military power come what may and our servicemen are being used and abused.