Dog should eat dog - by Richard... Friday, May 28, 2010

Dog should eat dog - by Richard... Friday, May 28, 2010

Rather amusingly, The Guardian is letting Monbiot off his leash to have a go at The Times, telling the world that its "exclusive" tale on EU climate targets is "gibberish".

Although Moonbat is largely a free agent, there must be an element of policy involved here, as most newspaper editors are reluctant to allow attacks on other journals. The view is taken that "dog shall not eat dog" in an informal arrangement that binds together the media as a self-serving (and mutually supporting) club.

In that sense, it is good to see Moonbat break ranks – even if one cannot agree with all he writes. Climate change aside, another good place to start would be the defence coverage, breaking into the low-grade and ill-informed coverage that we see all too often. And, once again, The Timeswould be a suitable target, with a story that could easily qualify as "gibberish".

The headline claim of this story – which sounds so terribly plausible – is that the MoD "has spent £207 million on an armoured vehicle that has yet to leave the drawing board, despite seven years of development." This, it tells us, is the Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) which "was supposed to provide soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with better protection against roadside bombs but its development has dragged on and costs have continued to rise."

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Are we children? - by Richard... Thursday, May 27, 2010

I would hate to have to inhabit the intellectual construct that forms the world of Herman Van Rompuy. According to this dire little man, us poor simple "ordinary people" were "misled over [the] impact of the euro". 

Europe's "man in the street", he says, was misled for years over the vast political and economic implications of the creation of "Euroland". "Nobody ever told the proverbial man in the street that sharing a single currency was not just about making peoples' lives easier when doing business or travelling abroad, but also about being directly affected by economic developments in the neighbouring countries."

This is what is known technically as "bollocks". Whatever else, the issues relating to the euro have been well rehearsed and, in two instances – Sweden and Denmark – when the public were given a fair crack of the whip in deciding whether to go for it, they rejected the idea of a common currency.

This issue throughout has been the refusal of the euroslime to put the issue properly to the vote – the betting is that if Germany had put the matter to a referendum, the Volks would have given the same answer as the Danes and Swedes. We are not little children who needed "daddy" to tell us what to think and understand. 

One is, therefore, a little puzzled by Vincenzo Scarpetta, an analyst for Open Europe who asserts that: "The euro zone crisis is not simply about economic failure but also a breakdown in trust between the political class and European citizens. The EU elite simply got it wrong on the euro." 

That's not exactly how I and many others see it. The euro was always an attempt to impose a political agenda on the peoples of Europe – the elite didn't get it wrong, in any normal sense. It was a power grab ... and it's coming unstuck. Furthermore, we don't need Herman Van Rompuy to tell us that – or who we should blame.

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