Oh woops - by Richard... Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Oh woops - by Richard... Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Scientific American did a survey on climate change. With these results, they must have regretted asking.

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That's enough Dave - by Richard...

I hadn't meant to do so much Dave, but Euroslime has been rather in the news lately. And now we hear that he has promised "a shift in power" from government to the people today as Whitehall departments published business plans setting out what they intend to do and how voters can hold them accountable for it.

Thus he burbles: "We are going to take power from government and hand it to people, families and communities ... In one of the biggest blows for people power, we're shining a bright light of transparency on everything government does". And, says The Independent, it really is all about "business plans" – and that from a man who has never done an honest day's work in his life.

The really tragic thing about all this is that the lad probably believes what he is saying. Yes he is almost certainly that stupid. Only if you are that stupid can you talk about handing more power to the people, when most of it has already been handed to the EU. Yet, it would appear that there are an awful lot of stupid people around, so you sometimes wonder what precisely Dave has to do to get seen for the political joke that he really is.

Anyhow, that's enough Dave – ed, as they say.

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Spoiling the narrative - by Richard... Monday, November 08, 2010

The MSM seems to be taking some pains to sell us a narrative that everything is sweetness and light in Westminster, with "few signs of the toxic disagreements over Europe that once threatened to tear apart the Conservative Party".

Having been piloted in The Independent and The Guardian, we now see The Daily Telegraph trying it on - a newspaper with such questionable political judgement that one can only marvel that it is still thought of as a serious journal in some quarters.

However, even this daily excuse for a newspaper is noticing, somewhat belatedly, that "when David Cameron returned from the Brussels summit on budget contributions last month he was perhaps a bit too pleased with what he had achieved".

That is something of a misstatement, seeing as though Euroslime Dave had achieved nine-tenths of sweet f**k-all, but then The Daily Excuse cannot admit to that it fell into the trap of believing the hype.

Nevertheless, the paper is going to have to row back a little more yet, as galloping over the horizon is Euroslime Dave's nemesis, in the form of Sidonia Jedrzejewska (pictured below right).

"Who she?" you might ask, and well you might. According toReuters, she is the EU parliament's rapporteur on the budget and is currently proposing a compromise deal. Taking the 2.9 percent offered by the Council of Ministers and claimed by Euroslime as his own, the fair Sidonia is proposing to split the difference between that and the parliament's 6.2 percent, coming up with a 4.5 percent increase.

Bearing in mind that the parliament has the last say on the budget, that proposal has wings. Furthermore, it rather demonstrates that the EU parliament is not in the least minded to spare Euroslime Dave's blushes. Soon enough, he is actually going to look as stupid as he has behaved, when he has to tell his adoring public that he has been well and truly stuffed.

Furthermore, that isn't even the end of it. Sidonia is hinting that she can make up the balance over the year, with a series of "amending budgets" - additional spending requests made by parliament during the course of the year – which will actually put the EU spending back up to where the Commission wanted it.

All we can hope for now is that there are enough people out there ready and willing to spoil the narrative that Euroslime Dave has attempted to craft for himself, chiselling 4.5 percent onto his political gravestone.

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An icy blast from the past - by Richard...

As we run into winter, I've been reading the first volume of the official history of the Royal Navy at war, called, "The War at Sea, 1939-1945" by Captain S W Roskill. Picking up on the earlier accountof the winter of 1939-40, one reads with very great interest the following:

The acute difficulties of the months of January and February 1940 were aggravated by exceptionally severe weather. Conditions more normal to polar regions prevailed over the whole east coast during these months. For almost three weeks traffic in the Humber was suspended by ice. A ship specially strengthened for ice-breaking failed to force a passage out of Goole, and an attempt to break up the ice with an empty collier of 1,500 tons resulted only in her riding up on the ice and remaining there. Floating pack ice reached a depth of 12 feet in estuaries and swept away navigational marks. Fighter aircraft were sometimes immobilised for days on end on snow-bound and fog-bound airfields; and the guns and superstructures of merchant ships and escort vessels were permanently coated in ice and frozen spray.

Roskill adds that the same weather immobilised the German surface ships in their bases. And indeed that was the case. The German naval base at Wilhemshaven was for a time ice-bound – pic below. The pic at the very top shows the sea off Whitstable.

Interestingly, German aircraft appeared to be less affected than our own - which may be explained by the fact that so many more had air-cooled engines, but again it was certainly the case that operations were affected. The pic below shows Spitfires at Duxford during the winter. German attacks on British shipping continued through the winter, causing some problems for the RAF (to say nothing of the shipping being attacked).

Conditions on land were grim, and the picture below shows a train just outside Manchester in February of 1940 having to be dug out by soldiers. Yet, it will be recalled, during the following summer, the Arctic ice-pack retreated so much that the German surface raider Komet was able to navigate the Northeast Passage, across the top of Russia into the Pacific.

As the warmists crow about the "warmest year" since whenever, all of us would do to remember that 1940 was the start of the little cooling, so current temperatures are bound to be warmer by comprison. And thank goodness they are. The last thing we want is the winters of the '40s back - they were brutal. But the other thing of significance is that, while the winter were cold, the summers were long and hot.

The "climate disruption" that the warmists claim is a sign of climate change, that is currently giving us colder winters and warm summers is some areas, is entirely compatible with a period of cooling.

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Subliminal message? - by Richard...

Look closely at the umbrella. What is the message the BBC is trying to give us?

And, incidentally, the lame and the stupid are blathering about their hero not listening to the "Today Programme" any more, and getting his news from the internet. This is classic "above the line" stuff, but no more than what we've being saying on this blog for ages. Anyone with any brains has long since ceased taking a news feed from the BBC. But now the wunderkind farts, the results are splattered all over the ToryBoy blog.

There are two kinds of people in this nation of ours. One kind listens to the BBC and believes what it is told. The other looks at the BBC in the manner of a curious observer examining a specimen in a zoo, to discover what it might do next.

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Solar mania - by Richard...

Stand aside Louise, Dellers is on the job. Stuff your snivelling biodiversity and carbon crap. Our Man is telling us as it is – not on the blog, but in the main paper.

This has to be a first, but we hope it won't be the last.

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There was a time when we didn't ask - by Richard...

Burdened by the huge number of foreign prisoners in our jails, who object to being returned home to serve their sentences, Euroslime Dave is to "personally intervene".

More than 11,000 of the 85,000 people in English jails are foreign nationals, so little Dave is going cap in hand to countries such as Jamaica (Jamaica FFS) – of whose citizens we hold some 900 – to ask "pretty please" if they would be ever so kind and take some of their dregs back, to save us the expense of keeping them.

There was a time, of course, when he did not bother asking. Her Majesty's Representative, in whatever benighted spot, would simply invite local dignitaries to cocktails on the quarterdeck of whatever passing warship could be arranged. An amicable agreement would be reached, failing which personal deliveries of a different kind could be arranged.

And yes, he said, wearily, I know we can't send gunboats all over the globe any more – especially as they are shortly to become Anglo-French gunboats, with not a single resignation in the ranks of the Queen's Navee. And yes, he added wearily, I do know what happened to the warship pictured – which is why I chose it.

But for all that, there is something ineffably limp and weak about the way we do business these days. One yearns for a sign of firm, masculine leadership, instead of this wishy-washy, craven kowtowing. As it stands, certain personages would not be amused.

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