Umbrella Blog

Our Man in Havana is........A Bulgarian

2010-01-22T11:13:00.001Z

An EU Foreign Minister ('High Representative for Foreign Affairs' in EU DoubleSpeak) only became a legal reality just 53 days ago. First appointee Baroness Ashton of UpMoscow has yet to be confirmed in office. The EU Diplomatic Service ('External Action Service' or 'EAS' in EU DoubleSpeak) likewise is 56 days old: yet already it has opened 50 'EU Embassies' across the world. That was quick, I hear you say.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Where There's Brass, There's Muck

2010-01-01T12:34:00.002Z

Here's another angle on the scam that is Carbon Trading. When debit cards were first introduced in the UK I prosecuted several supermarket checkout girls who had been helping themselves to customer's money using the newly introduced cards. The company security officer witness told me that it took their staff under a week from the moment of introduction to work out how to steal using the cards.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Titter Ye Not At John Selwyn Gummer

2009-12-30T12:22:00.000Z

John Selwyn Gummer, a used leftover from the Major years still to be found peddling EuroCrap in the House of Commons, has announced his retirement from Parliament. This will bring belated Christmas cheer to all free-born Englishmen for this is a genuine dyed-in-the-wool member of the EuroTaleban. A Champagne day, then. His observations to the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT24) (Hattip: ConHome) concerning his departure are, however, utterly beyond parody:

Posted on The Huntsman.

Lithuania: The EU Bill Falls Due

2009-12-29T17:01:00.000Z

Lithuanians were doubtless told in 2003 - as many an aspiring EU member had been before and will be again - that joining the European Union would bring jobs, prosperity, streets paved with gold, fields filled to brimming with milk and honey, peace, Eden and mother's apple pie all rolled into one.

Posted on The Huntsman.

“Work makes you free” sign theft conspiracy theories

2009-12-21T19:02:00.000Z

Neo-Nazi attack? Dark forces acting to make Poland look bad? The theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from Gate I at the site of the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, recovered today and five arrested in northern Poland, has been a sign of the times - when everything has a conspiracy behind it.

Posted on: The Beatroot

Smuggo: A Prophet Without Honour

2009-12-21T14:16:00.000Z

It is devoutly to be hoped that history will be profoundly unkind to Anthony Blair. No man has had a more malign effect, by a very long chalk, on British politics and the British body politic than this charlatan of a snake oil salesman. His words of hurt indignation at the galling disdain of his fellow countrymen reported this weekend will have brought pleasure to many.

Posted on The Huntsman.

eBorders Leak Through EU Sieve

2009-12-18T09:45:00.000Z

The Treaty on the Functioning of The European Union (TFEU) may not be Joe Public's bedside reading - like all Eurospeak documents it is not exactly accessible to ordinary folk - but time and again it comes back to kick the interests of the British People in the teeth. Now it has carefully trashed the heart of Labour's much vaunted eBorders scheme, effectuvely neutering it.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Comrade Ashton of UpMoscow Speaks

2009-12-17T01:30:00.001Z

Baroness Ashton of UpMoscow, lately the doxy of one Duncan Rees, erstwhile General-Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, has relieved herself over the leader pages of The Times of her first pensées as the Andrei Gromyko of the EU. They are, for someone who has risen, as they say, without trace, predictably anodyne.

Posted on The Huntsman.

The BBC Used to Believe in Global Cooling....

2009-12-15T11:45:00.000Z

As I listen yet again to the Government Propaganda Service (aka The BBC) allowing an Anthropogenic Globing Warming fanatic oodles of unfettered and unchallenged airtime asserting that he is right and we are wrong, I was reminded of another time when the BBC was just as determined to persuade us that we were on the cusp of a new Ice Age.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Between The Devil & The Deep Pinky-Blue Sea

2009-12-14T12:21:00.001Z

The current dip in the Conservative Party's poll ratings have brought on considerable jitters in its ranks. Labour has seized on it as evidence that the game is still on and all is to play for. But it has also sharpened the nature of the personal decision that some voters will have to make about their vote come the General Election.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Cowardly Gordon Brown Plays 'War Hero'

2009-12-14T11:07:00.000Z

Our Prime Minister may be many things but courageous is most certainly not one of them. Exigencies of space militate against a lengthy adumbration of examples of his gutlessness but his bottling of a mandate-seeking General Election two years ago will come to most minds. Nor does one need to indulge in a litany of his other egregious character flaws to remind us that this Prime Minister is quite the most unpleasant individual to occupy Number 10 Downing Street in several lifetimes.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Mr. Speaker: A Politically Corrupt Little Shyster

2009-12-13T09:38:00.001Z

Nothing so points up the rank corruption of our present ruling political class than the news in today's Mail on Sunday that Mr. Speaker Bercow so fears the judgement of his fellow citizens that he wishes to remove himself from the risk that such judgement might be unfavourable.

Posted on The Huntsman.

The EU's Repo Man Cometh

2009-12-11T10:36:00.001Z

There you were, bombing along in the fast lane. Chauffered about in your limo, your police outriders stop the traffic for you at every junction with strident whistle-blasts. The world's most powerful woman hangs on your every word as you bill and coo in her ear. Then one morning you come downstairs and the limo has gone. Bang: The EU's Repo Man has been.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Jaruzelski did ask for 1981 Soviet intervention?

2009-12-08T12:11:00.001Z

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) is to release documents which appear to show that General Jaruzelski did indeed request support from Moscow if Solidarity protests got out of control.

Posted on: The Beatroot

Where Are The Reds Now?

2009-12-07T11:27:00.000Z

Have you ever given thought to what all those homegrown Commie bastards did after their dreamworld was trashed? To quote Sinn Fein-IRA's Gerry Adams, "they haven't gone away you know".

No indeed.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Lisbon's Bills Fall Due

2009-12-07T09:19:00.000Z

With the ink on the Czech Republic's Instrument of Ratification of the EU Constitution still wet, the EU Comrades continue to move with considerable, if unsurprising haste, to consolidate their seizure of power from the member states. First Nicolas Sarkozy's personal attack dog, Michel Barnier, was installed as EU Commissioner in charge of the single market. Now a French Poodle has picked up the Agriculture Brief.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Obama - The War President And The Speech

2009-12-06T18:10:00.002Z

President Obama just finished speaking at West Point..and now it's time to look at what he actually had to say. It was a weird, furtive speech that failed in what was supposed to be its primary goal - convincing the American people that nation building in Afghanistan was actually necessary to American security...

Posted on Joshuapundit

UK PM Brown Snubbed By Wounded Brit Soldiers

2009-12-06T18:01:00.002Z

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is decidedly unpopular among Britain's wounded warriors, and apparently many of them have no problems showing it. At the Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham where some of the most severely wounded from Afghanistan are being treated, more than half the soldiers deliberately avoided Brown when he visited.

Posted on Joshuapundit

No sex please…we’re Danish?

2009-12-06T15:10:00.001Z

Something is rotten in the capital of Denmark. Prostitutes are offering free sex in protest against a local government campaign urging Copenhagen climate change delegates to steer clear of the city’s brothels. Thirty thousand delegates will be joined by scores of human trafficers and their cargo, if the Copenhagen local government is to be believed.

Posted on: The Beatroot

We Are All Climate Saboteurs Now

2009-12-04T14:44:00.001Z

Such is the twist into which protagonists of Anthropogenic Global Warming have got their knickers following the so-called 'Warmergate Scandal' exposing their trickery to the light of day that at least one of its more rabid puffers, one Ed Miliband (scion of a foreign Marxist professor) has come out as the Felix Dzerzhinsky of his day.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Where Power Resides

2009-12-03T15:12:00.000Z

In the week when the United Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign independent nation state, when Gordon Brown became a mere Provincial Governor of the EU, when the Tory Party suddenly woke up to a decline in its ratings dating to its raising the white flag over Lisbon, to where are now drawn all eyes and ears over matters European?

Posted on The Huntsman.

You Can Lead The Horse to Water........

2009-12-01T16:30:00.000Z

We should be grateful for the existence of Dan Hannan. If there were more Tory MPs & MEPs like him we might have a political party in power in 2010 that was actually serious about our relationship with the European Union. Pity then he is so slow on the uptake.

Posted on The Huntsman.

Hague: 'I'll Dilly-Dally All The Way To Brussels'

2009-11-04T18:39:00.001Z

It is bad enough that the Tories, who will, barring some unforeseen event, form the next 'government' of the United Kingdom, should have reneged upon their 'cast-iron' promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution (ake The Lisbon or Zombie Treaty). Now comes news from the horse's mouth that the Tories' EU policy upon coming into power will amount to inaction, procrastination and William Hague examining his navel very, very, very carefully.

Posted on The Huntsman.

So There It Is. There Will Be No Conservative Referendum.

2009-11-01T23:01:00.002Z

But there will be a manifesto commitment to renegotiate. What does that mean? That's the problem. No one can know at this stage what events will trigger, or where the conflict will come. But at some point, there will be a national outcry, not just a eurosceptic outcry. It is then that Cameron should deploy his forces to wrest power away from the EU.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Mr Darling does a banking u turn

2009-11-01T20:39:00.001Z

When you know the EU is going to impose a policy on your branch government which differs from the one you're following at present, get in and change your policy first, so that it looks as if you're still in control. You may emerge as a contradictory ditherer, but at least the contradictions spring from your own head and are not a result of having them imposed on you. ...

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Comedians Lead Fightback Against EU

2009-10-27T22:55:00.003Z

Reading the EU tea-leaves has never been harder. Will Lisbon be ratified? Will Klaus buckle? Will Blair be President? Will life in Europe become anti-democratic, and brutal? Where can you find anyone willing to write and explain what is going on, and how, if at all, the collosal power that the EU is hoping to consolidate over its member states will be stopped?

Posted on The Tap Blog

BBC Stages BNP AFU Street Theatre

2009-10-22T18:10:00.003+01:00

If this is a serious riot, then BBC Gardener's Question Time is war. The numbers of cameras and journalists outnumbered the rioters three to one, and the Police were strangely absent from the BBC gate as it somehow opened itself. This is theatre, staged for consumption by the world's media. Why?

Posted on The Tap Blog

A Lesson For The Guardian

2009-10-13T15:13:00.006+01:00

The judge knew what they were doing. If anyone wanted to appeal, where would they go? The House Of Lords? Not any more. It would be the new ‘Supreme Court’ which is not a Supreme Court at all, but a junior court of the ECJ. If a case concerning Parliamentary Privilege were to appear before the ECJ, the appellant would lose.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Legg Protects The Powerful

2009-10-12T10:22:00.002+01:00

When I was first appointed Lord Chancellor,' he (Derry) drones, 'my Permanent Secretary, Sir Thomas Legg, impressed upon me the advantages for me, both as Lord Chancellor and as Speaker, of living in the residence. I took the view that there was much to be said for accepting that advice.'...

Posted on The Tap Blog

Lisbon Treaty Legalises Paedophilia

2009-10-11T22:51:00.003+01:00

This video explains how, in all previous EU Treaties,there is an Article covering sexual orientation, expressing that the Treaty must be interpreted without prejudice to any sexual orientation. But there was always a protocol added to the 'sexual orientation' Article, whereby paedophilia was expressly excluded. In the Lisbon Treaty, Article 21 permits...

Posted on The Tap Blog

ECR Is A Tory Stitch-Up

2009-10-11T12:49:00.003+01:00

The ECR has been presented by the Conservatives as 'not-the-federalist-EPP', but an anti Lisbon alliance. Why is the leader of the ECR then, a supporter of the Lisbon Treaty? That is why he should be gone from the leadership of the ECR. Conservatives don't need him for that reason.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Murdochs Lose Cricket For Attacking Labour And Lisbon In Sun

2009-10-11T00:39:00.006+01:00

Labour’s fury against James Murdoch swinging The Sun to support Cameron, and against the Lisbon Treaty is starting to show.
First it’s cricket they are taking away from him. Next it will be football. All very predictable.

Posted on The Tap Blog

2009-10-11T00:39:00.001+01:00

http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2009/10/murdochs-penalised-for-attacking-labour.html

Political Parties - Rich Men's Playthings

2009-10-10T08:40:00.005+01:00

You may have heard of the Jury Team, with hero of the Glasgow Airport terror attack, John Smeaton, standing for Parliament in the coming Glasgow by-election. They slipped in a few votes in the EP elections - 75,000 odd which isn't bad for a party which only started this year.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Conservatives! Get Into The PR Driving Seat NOW!

2009-10-08T07:26:00.003+01:00

are referenda the only avenue available to negotiate and articulate the eurosceptic appetite growing across Britain? There are other possibilities. One idea is a little bit lateral, but once you think about it, quite a good one. Why don't the Conservatives notice something? That something is this...

Posted on The Tap Blog

Detailed Evidence Suggests Irish Referendum 2 was Rigged

2009-10-07T15:04:00.006+01:00

The Presiding Officers in the following polling stations in and near Dublin, supposedly a high turnout area, gave their vote totals to unofficial election monitors associated with the COIR Campaign. The highest are 60%. The average a lot lower - maybe 50%. As Dublin was a high turnout area, it suggests that the officially claimed turnout figure of 59.7% was a false figure.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Britain's Eurosceptics Need PR

2009-10-06T16:24:00.007+01:00

The Conference has left the eurosceptic wing totally turned off....that is 80% of the party. The media are threatening dire talk of Cameron's support leaving him if he turns to the right - i.e. they will clobber him if he dares to go eurosceptic. And on cue, he's gone dead on referendum talk. The media are the gate-keepers. The Conservatives are stranded.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Boris Creams Paxman And Saves £5 Billion On London Transport

2009-10-06T09:49:00.007+01:00

It's why Boris is good with money. Honesty is so much cheaper to fund that bullshit. You could feel your taxes coming down, and people getting looked after better. Boris would be able to get rid of all the bureaucrats and keep the front line services. His speech to conference was much funnier and more informative in that way.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Lisbon Referendum In Ireland Was Rigged

2009-10-05T21:09:00.003+01:00

The turnout figure was given at near 60%. In fact it was around 40%. Another 50% of votes were added during the count to the YES totals, doubling their number. In the film above, it is clear that no attempt was made to hide the total lack of security surrounding the ballot boxes. The lids are open.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Cameron Can Bide His Time

2009-10-05T10:44:00.004+01:00

Now is not the moment. The false quantitative mini-boom will not last. Share prices are being massively subsidised in the USA with an average $10 billion a day being released to buy shares by the Fed. This cannot go on forever, maybe another year but not more. The hope is that the real economy.. will be repaired by then, but there are simply too many debts.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Roger Helmer Fires A Salvo

2009-10-05T00:43:00.004+01:00

Forgive me for seeing the funny side of all this, but why is it that the EU's enemies and its friends are both equally desperate for Cameron to declare his hand over the Lisbon treaty right now? You would have thought that one side or the other would be for and the other against him taking up position to fight.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Boris Johnson Refuses To Lick President Blair's Arse

2009-10-03T22:30:00.004+01:00

Johnson said: “If we are faced with the prospect of Tony Blair suddenly emerging, suddenly pupating into an intergalactic spokesman for Europe, then I think the British people deserve a say on it ... I do think it would be right for such a debate to be held, particularly if the upshot of the Lisbon treaty is going to produce President Blair.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Merkel Offers Cameron Electoral Rocket Fuel

2009-10-02T15:28:00.003+01:00

The BBC are running as a lead news story today an attempted put-down of David Cameron. The grievance is being expressed by Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union Party, who are mightily miffed, so it seems, that Cameron dared to exit the EPP, and they are clearly now worried by the statements he is making about a possible referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Britain.

Posted on The Tap Blog

EU Adopts Nazi Symbols

2009-10-01T03:55:00.004+01:00

Do you remember the logo Gordon Brown was given for the new EU-backed international financial supervisory body in February 2008, at the Progressive Governance Summit? (Above). See original story HERE. It was a swastika. A British Prime Minister was using a swastika! Well take a good look at the new logo for so-called new 'British' Supreme Court just opening for business this week.

Posted on The Tap Blog

SUN/Cameron Deal Confirms Lisbon Treaty Is Lost

2009-09-30T03:16:00.003+01:00

The pundits are all hard at work this morning. What does The Sun's switch of support from Labour to Conservative mean, coming at this moment? The Editor says the orders for the change come right from the top, in other words from Rupert Murdoch himself. Why now?

Posted on The Tap Blog

French Europe Minister Fears Irish Referendum Slap In Face

2009-09-29T13:13:00.004+01:00

it is a very uncertain campaign". He continued: "Whatever happens, Europe will keep on going because we do not have a choice...there is a lot of work to do in the energy, immigration, industry and social fields, and we are not going to stop. So we will find solutions if ever we were faced with such a situation (as a second NO vote)."

Posted on The Tap Blog

The EU Is Making Paedophilia Legal Across Europe

2009-09-29T08:33:00.005+01:00

The EU is setting up a bureau for the 116000 children who go missing in the EU every year, all very laudable to try and find them, I would agree - except the bureau is in fact called 'the missing and sexually exploited children bureau', with a remit to intervene in any situation where allegations are made by one citizen on another, so the children to be apprehended don't even need to be missing.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Irish YES Campaign Make Monkeys Of Themselves

2009-09-27T22:12:00.005+01:00

The best way to decide if you are hurting your political enemies with your campaign material is to see what kind of response they make, if any. On that basis, the COIR Campaign can see clearly that the YES side is rattled. And they can be sure beyond doubt that it is their poster campaign that has hurt the YES campaign the most.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Conservatives Will Rebel Against Ratified Treaty

2009-09-26T12:42:00.005+01:00

That is a change in emphasis from previous policy, seemingly not noticed by The Telegraph. It was previously stated that if the Treaty is not ratified by the election, and the Conservatives win power, they would simply call an immediate referendum. Now Hague says that he would wait to see what new proposals are going to be made by the EU.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Anger Overcomes Fear To Defeat Lisbon In Ireland

2009-09-25T15:59:00.004+01:00

The two Irish referendum campaigns are assuming different characteristics. The YES campaign is focused entirely on economics - with its 'Yes To Lisbon, Yes To Jobs' appeal to the pocket. The NO campaign is far less rational, but no less powerful for that... this time it is not fear that is driving the NO campaign onwards to its second victory, but anger.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Obama Soils Himself At The UN

2009-09-25T06:48:00.002+01:00

President Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly was historic in that it represented what ex-UN Ambassador John Bolton aptly called a post-American speech by our first post-American president. And it expanded on th etheme of his famous Cairo speech, that America is to blame for the world's ills and so is Israel

Posted on Joshuapundit

Irish NO Campaign Plays Its Charms

2009-09-25T04:23:00.004+01:00

It's very interesting to see a political message depart from the mainstream media and even from speech. It's the way for suppressed political movements to go - to express rebellion,youth, hope and identity in other ways. It's a bit like the YES have tried to make NO illegal, which has made NO the sexiest possible thing to say, do, draw, sing or wear.

Posted on The Tap Blog

COIR Says NO is Pulling Ahead

2009-09-24T09:10:00.003+01:00

This is the first claim made on the Coir website about the success of their campaign. There is no reason to disbelieve it. The rationale for the NO gaining ground that it gives, reads as if it's well thought through, intelligent and genuine, in my opinion.

Posted on The Tap Blog

More Evidence Of EUtopian Bitterness And Desperation

2009-09-22T11:27:00.003+01:00

Just as the polls in Ireland at last provide evidence that the NO side will win the Referendum in Ireland, and as it becomes clear that Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic will not be signing the Lisbon Treaty any time soon , the rhetoric from the EUtopians gets ever more desperate.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Do The Irish Want A British President?

2009-09-20T10:07:00.003+01:00

The Brown collapse has changed things. The EU are not only sure Brown would lose an election, which wouldn't worry them if by then Ireland had ratified Lisbon, and the Czechs and Poles. They are now worrying if Brown will even make it to the election...

Posted on The Tap Blog

Betting In Irish Lisbon Referendum Neck & Neck

2009-09-18T15:51:00.006+01:00

Here are the betting odds offered in London today by Paddy Power.YES - 4/7 i.e. win £1.57 per £1. NO - 5/4 i.e win £2.25 per £i. The betting is now neck and neck.
'So what?' you might think ! Well, yesterday the price for a NO bet was 11/2. That's what !

Posted on The Tap Blog

Lisbon Is The Battle Of Britain

2009-09-17T08:35:00.003+01:00

With a complex strategic and tactical battle, the first aim should be to get your opponents to fight in the wrong place, and the Lisbon Treaty negotiations and ratification should be seen not as the main attack. The EU is accruing power over us on a daily basis, seen and unseen, and Lisbon makes little difference to that.

Posted on The Tap Blog

The EU Abandons Democracy.

2009-09-16T12:20:00.004+01:00

It reports that, several "leading EU politicians digress from the thesis that the Lisbon Treaty is necessary for the effective functioning of the enlarged EU. The new message is that, without the Lisbon Treaty, the EU would be as capable of acting as hitherto."

Posted on The Tap Blog

EUtopians Bury Lisbon's Corpse And Run For Cover

2009-09-15T09:17:00.002+01:00

It seems that the NO side in the Irish referendum campaign no longer have to come up with their own campaign slogans. They are getting all their best material from the YES side, who are beginning to openly admit that the Lisbon Treaty is a mistake, a dead duck, and not even necessary.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Do Something Popular, Mr. Cameron!

2009-09-14T15:21:00.001+01:00

The moment when we discover whether Mr. David Cameron is a politician of genuine principle and valour or simply a gutless mountebank may be fast approaching. If the opinion polls being touted about are correct, then the Irish are about to make serious fools out of themselves by concluding that when they said "No!" they really meant "Yes".

Posted on The Huntsman.

Conservatives Prepare To Fight Lisbon

2009-09-14T03:56:00.004+01:00

In recent days on Conservative Home I have been writing in the comments, drawing attention to the various signals being sent out by members of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, notably Hague and Francois, and eurosceptic MEPs Hannan and Helmer. These are all indicating a changing position on the Lisbon Treaty.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Another Tory MEP Signals Lisbon Referendum Is Now A Certainty

2009-09-11T12:28:00.003+01:00

..It was as if Roger Helmer knew something which permitted him to offer a hardening of Cameron and Hague's previous rather vague statement. Now we have another nudge and a wink - this time coming in more definite terms, from another well known Conservative eurosceptic MEP. Dan Hannan is offering more clues..

Posted on The Tap Blog

Something Stinks At Top Of UKIP

2009-09-08T23:38:00.001+01:00

The only part of this story that everyone agrees on is that the UKIP Treasurer, formerly the EU's Head Accountant, Marta Andreasen, and the Party Leader Nigel Farage have both resigned from UKIP a few days apart from each other. That's where clarity ends.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Sensational Change To Conservative Lisbon Policy Signalled In A Blog

2009-09-06T11:21:00.005+01:00

Strangely no one has yet realised how big a change it represents. The source is Roger Helmer MEP Conservative for East Midlands, who is not known for wild statements, which are not approved by the Party leadership.

Roger Helmer MEP said...

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A Cowardly Lack Of National Leadership

2009-09-06T08:43:00.001+01:00

Gordon Brown has rightly been attacked for his evasions and obfuscations over the release of the Libyan mass murderer Al-Megrahi, in particular for evading the question of what his opinion on the matter might be. One might think that this is as spectacular a lack of National Leadership as one might find in a politician. Not so, for David Cameron is guilty of a far greater one.

Posted on The Huntsman.

To Nobody's Surprise

2009-08-31T10:39:00.001+01:00

It is usual for British Prime Ministers and others in senior government posts who are on the point of yet another Quisling spasm of surrender to the EU to proclaim that whatever shameful act he is about to do is about 'putting Great Britain at the heart of Europe'. Sooner or later, and usually sooner, The EU in turn utterly traduces what ever the UK was promised in the latest such squalid deal.

Posted on The Huntsman.

EU Battles In Germany Intensify

2009-08-11T04:45:00.002+01:00

News is trickling out from inside Germany, that is as reported in the German media, but not internationally, that one hell of a tussle for power is in process, with pro-EU lawyers trying to neutralise the decision of the German Constitutional Court, while less EU-favourable politicians try to consolidate the decision and ensure that Germany is set free from the effects of the Lisbon Treaty.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Von Stauffenberg To Prevent EU Totalitarianism

2009-08-09T05:40:00.004+01:00

I see the way to [the Constitutional Court] as a last resort,” the Count said, “and had hoped that we could compel a re-think through an ordinary democratic manner, through argument, debate, and public pressure. This has totally failed..... This Europe is no longer compatible with the basic structures of a democratic legal state.”

Posted on The Tap Blog

German Fancy Dress Party To Explode Lisbon

2009-08-05T01:19:00.004+01:00

The article notes that these differences seriously threaten the timetable set out for passing the legislation on the Lisbon Treaty and therefore ratification of the Treaty before the referendum in Ireland. The first reading in the parliament is expected on 26 August.

Posted on The Tap Blog

What global warming was that?

2009-07-24T16:20:00.000+01:00

Some excitement on Watts up with that about a new peer reviewed scientific paper claiming that the surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean (the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO). The paper is described as "presenting a head on challenge to man-made global warming claims"....

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Clive Betts: Sleazocrat & Porkocrat

2009-07-13T15:02:00.000+01:00

Is Clive Betts (see this in the Times) the suino di tutti suini, the Porker of All Porkers? Maybe, maybe not, as Jonathan Djanogly seems to be making a play for the Title. Readers will have their own candidates for which MP is the biggest porker of them all but there is something particularly 'Animal Farm' about Mr. Betts.
Posted on The Huntsman.

German Parliament Will Tell The Kids When To Come Home

2009-07-01T15:28:00.002+01:00

To my way of thinking, it asks a question of the German Parliament and that question is simply 'are you sure you want to legislate away the democratic rights of the German people?.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Masquerade In Iran

2009-06-29T17:56:00.001+01:00

Are Mousavi and his followers in Iran an actual reform movement? The pictures of student demonstrators in Tehran being brutalized by the basij and Iranian security forces present a heart-rending spectacle. But there is very little evidence that the label of "democratic reform," attached to Mousavi and many of his followers, is anything but a masquerade.

Posted on Joshuapundit

Sharia Rapidly Innundating The UK

2009-06-29T17:48:00.003+01:00

Ever since the UK caved in and allowed sharia courts legal jurisdiction in civil matters, the face of used-to-be-Great Britain has changed remarkably, as sharia courts metasize and dispense Islamic justice behind closed doors. This is simply a green light for Islamists like the MCB to essentially create a state within a state.

Posted on Joshuapundit

"Cut IVF on the NHS" - and fake charities

2009-06-29T07:05:00.003+01:00

"Fury as NHS trust says only women between 39.5 and 40 years old can have IVF", reports the Daily Mail. It's NICE and those unaccountable NHS managers again. Commenters on their site don't share this "fury", saying their NHS money should be for curing illness. Infertility Network UK do object. But then they are a fake charity. ...

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

This is what happens when you borrow too much

2009-06-28T20:19:00.002+01:00

One of today's most interesting news items is hidden away in the business section on the Guardian's site. Yes, it does have one. It's for articles with numbers in them. But this is about far more than numbers. It is about hard choices to be made in government, a core concern of politics....

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Brown downgrades penalties for expenses fiddlers

2009-06-24T08:19:00.001+01:00

It will not save those already caught in the glare of the Daily Telegraph's headlights, but Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman et al. are working hard to ensure that any MP caught in future with his or her trotter in the trough will not have to face very much jail time, if any. That is if we have the chance to catch them at it.
Posted on The Huntsman.

The Moving Finger Wrote

2009-06-19T10:54:00.001+01:00

Parliament has given us two fingers. Only an immediate General Election will now do. This Parliament has no moral authority to speak of and must be effaced before it does yet more harm. Meanwhile I am reminded of this from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
Posted on The Huntsman.

Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself

2009-06-18T11:48:00.001+01:00

Thinking to sink HMS Telegraph, the House of Commons this morning fired off an Exocet missile in the form of publishing its own thoroughly bowdlerized version of their expenses. All they will have achieved thereby is many more hectares of newsprint and gigabytes of internet coverage as their attempt to cover up the extent of their larceny stands exposed.
Posted on The Huntsman.

Tory Dishonour

2009-06-16T15:15:00.000+01:00

It sometimes seems to mere mortals that the Conservative Party does not actually WANT to win the next General Election. How else to explain Ken Clarke's freshest act of disloyalty to his party and his country in which he decided without so much as 'by your leave' to set Tory policy on the EU, notwithstanding that this is not his brief?
Posted on The Huntsman.

Up Close & Personal With The NHS

2009-06-16T13:55:00.001+01:00

Having been laid low by a serious kidney infection (hence no blogging), I have had an 'up close & personal' look at the NHS after twelve years of Labour throwing money at it. The front-line bit remains a welcome safety net into which to fall at such times and I have naught but praise for doctors, nurses and ancillary staff.

Posted on The Huntsman.

British Embassies Assist Blackmail And The Break-Up Of Families Across The Globe

2009-06-11T21:36:00.002+01:00

I was told by the Consul that the reasons that children from divorced and separated couples cannot now obtain British passports is to prevent international abduction from taking place.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Philip Stephens - the outdated oligarch

2009-06-09T13:53:00.004+01:00

After an absence one forgets just how snootily anti-democratic Philip Stephens, the FT's political commentator, is. He talks today of Cameron sleepwalking towards Europe's exit. The core (unsubstantiated) argument is that rejecting the Lisbon treaty would put the UK in the departure lounge. On the way he calls UKIP "europhobic"....

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Frank Field opposes Brown again

2009-06-08T14:35:00.002+01:00

Brown looks likely to survive, but Paul Waugh points out that Frank Field has returned to the attack on him That's incidental to Field's main message that voters have to be taken seriously. His comment about what he calls "European politics" is uncharacteristically obscure. But it's hard to see the main parties addressing these voter concerns with anything but cant - or, as Richard would say, elastoplast.

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Brown marooned as debates move on

2009-04-28T21:59:00.002+01:00

The politically important debates are steaming away from Brown, leaving him marooned. On MPs' expenses and on the economy he is already part of the past. Debate has moved on from him. Doubtless Richard North's forthcoming book on our defeat in Iraq will also leave him floundering - but who will pick up that debate?

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Eurozone Central Banks Spend Reserves

2009-04-28T18:50:00.003+01:00

....... In Europe who on earth knows what is going on, as little of any significance gets reported. We are told, however, by Reuters that last week Eurozone Central Banks found it necessary to part company with 16 billion euros of reserves. That's nearly 1% of the total going west in a week. If that rate is maintained for a year, the effect will be to reduce reserves by about 50% - getting close to Euros 1 trillion in a year.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Mexican Flu Con Blankets Real News

2009-04-28T17:58:00.003+01:00

Mexican swine fever is sure as hell filling the airwaves. This is most convenient for politicians especially those in the US who might have something to hide. According to the Wall Street Journal, the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America was carried out under duress. Bernanke and Paulson are now in court accused of illegally enforcing it.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Britain Betrays Its Gurkha Soldiers - And Itself

2009-04-27T14:42:00.002+01:00

What kind of nation invites thousands of its avowed enemies to come and settle at the public expense while tossing its heroes out of the country? The Gurkhas are some of Britain's most valiant fighters, a elite and feared British force to be reckoned with. And now they've been betrayed by the country they were willing to die for.

Posted on Joshuapundit

Taliban Blocks Pakistani Army Supply Convoy, Holds Its Ground

2009-04-26T16:39:00.001+01:00

The Taliban may have partially pulled out of Buner,but they show no signs of giving up any further ground. Today, a convoy with supplies for the Pakistani army was blocked and turned around by armed Taliban at a roadblock on the main highway. And the back story behind the pullout is even more interesting..

Posted on Joshuapundit

Pakistan Continues To Implode

2009-04-24T08:53:00.000+01:00

Pakistan's deal with the Islamist devil is about to come apart, and so is the country. There are interesting parallels with Iran 1979 here.If the Taliban takes over or they're in a position to interdict the NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, NATO's war there may be over.givng way to another failed state, this time with nukes and ICBMs....

Posted on Joshuapundit

The Ebbing Tide; Pope Benedict Dons A Kefiyah

2009-04-24T07:54:00.002+01:00

Pope Benedict gave an audience to a group of Palestinians in Rome yesterday, and accepted and wore a keffiyah, a symbol of Palestinian 'resistance' from them. This is an ongoing pattern, a conscious decision the Pope made some time ago to avoid a moral battle he knows is inevitable for political expediency...rather like Pius XII in the 1930's

Posted on Joshuapundit

Euro About To Receive Market Kicking

2009-04-21T11:35:00.007+01:00

I've been blogging a while, predicting various market moves. My favourite one of these is undoubtedly the sinking value of the Euro versus all other currencies. The last two months have seen the Euro moving the other way, rising a little against the dollar. But the underlying weakness of the Euro is about to send it reeling.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Euro Predicted To Melt In The Crash

2009-04-09T01:00:00.004+01:00

Following the movements of markets is currently a challenge, it might be said. Making sense of the world's economy since around 2000 has been very hard. Years of irrational exuberance with record high valuations for stocks and commodities has turned into a long slow deflationary spiral downwards.

Posted on The Tap Blog

Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow

2009-04-06T15:31:00.001+01:00

Nigh on two years ago I first wrote, in indignation, of the wretched state of affairs concerning MPs expenses. Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. I also proposed some swingeing prison sentences for those who cheated. I now recognise my error.

Posted on The Huntsman.

EUThermopylae

2009-04-05T02:03:00.003+01:00

Once again the future of Europe hangs in the balance. And once again key events are taking place in the tiny Czech Republic. A country of 10 million people, The Czech Republic has the power to drive a second nail into the Lisbon Treaty's coffin.

Posted on The Tap Blog

G20 triumph - of spin over substance

2009-04-03T14:35:00.001+01:00

Until yesterday one thing was clear - never in the field of macro economics has so much been owed by so many because of so few. After the stage managed production brought to us via a media feeding frenzy in east London at the G20 summit, we could offer a whole new range of corruptions of the historic words by Winston Churchill...

Posted on Tony Sharp.

Scandal of MPs' expenses worsens

2009-03-29T17:18:00.002+01:00

Jacqui Smith's deliberate ransacking of the public purse as detailed in her expenses claims is more morally repugnant than her husband's inclusion of two adult films by mistake. The second home claims by supposed left winger Harry Cohen are also impossible to defend on any moral grounds. If we are going to have venal monkeys, let us at least pay them peanuts.

Posted on The Purple Scorpion

Collapsing in his internal contradictions

2009-03-26T12:55:00.002Z

Commentators continue to insist that an EU bailout of the weaker eurozone countries would be economically and politically possible. This blog continues to disagree. The latest is Charles Grant, who probably aimed to make a case for other EU countries bailing out eurozone members in danger of defaulting, concentrating on Greece, but in fact puts a compelling financial and economic argument why no one should lend Greece a bean.

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Splitting the anti-EU vote

2009-03-19T14:07:00.002Z

Members of the imploding UKIP are becoming fixated on the activities of the splinter UK First Party, which will contest the European elections. They will not be UKIP's main opponents. We look at Libertas, the BNP, and the new No2EU - Yes to Democracy against the background of a new opinion poll on attitudes to the EU.

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The Heartland amateurs

2009-03-16T15:56:00.002Z

In one respect, the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change on the theme Global Warming: was it ever a crisis? was a failure. Admirable as the contributions were, eminent as the speakers may have been, the message just has not got out. It's no good just blaming the mainstream media. The organisers have got to do better next year. ...

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