Monday, 11 April 2011

Our wonderful British bobbies - by Richard... Monday, April 11, 2011

While our dedicated police in Wales are targeting Mr Owens for his heinous crime, we decided to do a quick romp through the cuts to see what they were up to elsewhere. And what a wonderful job they are doing.

All within the last month, we have "Merseyside cop sacked after punching Formby man who later died". The widow of a taxi driver who was punched by a policeman and later died spoke of her relief after the officer was sacked.

Merseyside Police constable Andrew Jackson, 27, smacked Christopher Shackleton in the Freshfield Hotel, Formby, in a row over a spilled pint last July. Mr Shackleton, 42, stumbled outside before collapsing in the arms of his brother, Francis. He was taken to Southport hospital but died five days later from a stroke.

Then we have: "Police officers arrested for 'selling stolen property on eBay'". Three police officers are facing an investigation after allegedly selling stolen goods on eBay. The officers, from Merseyside Police, are said to have been arrested on suspicion of theft and misconduct in a public office.

All of them have been suspended from their duties. The arrests reportedly took place after complaints property taken during police raids ended up on the internet auction site.

To complement this, we have: "Hertfordshire PCSO convicted of leaking stories". A Hertfordshire police community support officer has been convicted of leaking information to the press. Emma Smiter, 26, of Welwyn Garden City, was found guilty of misconduct in a public office and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The ex-journalist passed on information gleaned from police computers to the news agency INS, Basildon Crown Court heard. The information appeared in newspapers such as The Sun and Daily Mirror. Smiter's illegal tip-offs included one which related to an allegation of attempted murder.

The material, gleaned from Hertfordshire Police computers, was passed to a news agency journalist and then on to the wider media.

Real people, of course, are left to fend for themselves, giving us this: "Police 'Left Woman To Be Stabbed And Scalded'". Six Lancashire police employees are facing misconduct proceedings after a "shocking catalogue of errors" left a vulnerable woman at the mercy of a violent attacker.

Computers features again here: Lancashire Police computers misuse probe. Several Lancashire police officers have been disciplined for using the constabulary computers to run searches on neighbours, family and local area.

In one allegation, which is currently being investigated by the Professional Standards Department, a PC in eastern division covering Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley, misused the Sleuth system to run criminal checks on neighbours and schools near his home.

Then this one happened up in Scotland: "A North East police officer is facing court charges relating to indecent images of children". Neil Shand, 48, appeared on petition at Banff Sheriff Court in January. He made no plea or declaration and was released on bail.

Grampian police said he had been suspended and faces an internal investigation. A Grampian Police spokesman said: "The force will undertake a misconduct investigation at the conclusion of criminal proceedings.

That is followed by this doozy: "Bungling detective let 'drug baron' escape". A detective has been jailed for tipping off a suspected heroin kingpin – allowing him to flee to Ibiza before he was arrested. Disgraced Detective Constable Matthew Reed, 32, wrecked a secret surveillance operation just as it prepared to bust a multi-million-pound heroin smuggling ring.

Police ultimately seized 23kg of heroin with an estimated street value of £2.3m, but only after the suspected ringleader had boarded a plane to the sun-soaked Balearic island. Cardiff Crown Court heard Reed admitted giving vital information about the investigation to a contact who then passed it on to the suspected drug baron.

But, when they get caught and turned over, its nice to see them taking it like men: "Married police officer howls in anguish as he's jailed for having sex on the beat". A policeman who had sex with a vulnerable woman while he was on duty, has been jailed for 12 months for his "abuse of power".

But the trial judge slammed the way his superiors dealt with the incident calling it "perfectly shameful". PC Nicholas Stone, who was working in the Devon and Cornwall force, howled like a baby as he was led to the cells from the dock by security officers.

These are just the ones that get caught and reported, that we have picked up during a very quick scan of the net. And there was this one last year, which had us wondering – even more so with this one. But hey! Don't forget that the police have got real crimes to deal with.

Just don't anyone say these are a "few bad apples". This is a vast barrel of apples. And that's one of the advantages of being a little bit older. I've been around a while, seen things done things. I've worked with cops professionally, been on the receiving end – too often. Needed them, far too often. I've, watched them, listened to them, studied them, and got some good friends who are ex-cops.

And yes, we know the Courts are just as bad, the CPS doesn't do its job, and all the rest, and the poor little plods don't get the back-up they feel they deserve (which is why, of course, they insist on alienating their natural supporters). But even when you take all that into account, you have a police force which is going down the pan. The more honest cops admit it, and I've had serving officers tell me much the same.

The BIG question is, though, what are we going to do about it? What CAN we do about it?

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Off with their veils - by Richard...


One has to say that the police would be better employed arresting these little madams. It isn't against the law to wear a burka (or niqab, if that is what they want to call it) in public, but it should be ... and since modern policing seems to be about making up the law as you go along, this is a good way to start.

This is not about religious freedom. There is nothing in the koran about wearing one, and neither is it a muslim dress ... it is an Arab dress, originally worn by the wealthy, as a demonstration of how wealthy they were. And that is what it is today ... a demonstration.

This most definitely has public order implications, as it is a deliberate, "in your face" political statement, a rejection of this society's values. It should be banned here, and if they don't like it, then they know where they can go.

How interesting it is, by the way, that if you type in "koran" on Word, the default value on the spellchecker is to capitalise it. Yet it is entirely indifferent to how you type "bible". This is a small example of our cultural surrender, but it comes from the same wellspring. We must reject it.


But it all goes back to those cowards in Parliament, past and present, who allow this to happen - and then standing idly by while the plod bully and harass the people who complain.

These things are linked. Once Parliament gave up its own sovereignty, and the MPs decided that they no longer represented us, and stood up for OUR rights, this was going to happen. The fools don't realise it, but they are leading us by the nose to civil war.

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Climb-down? - by Richard...


The case has been withdrawn against a BNP candidate for the Welsh assembly election who had been accused of being filmed burning a copy of the Koran, according to the BBC.

Sion Owens, aged 41, was charged with a public order offence on Saturday. But when he appeared at Swansea Magistrates Court today - after having been kept in custody since he was arrested, and chained like a dog to be led into court - the Crown Prosecution Service said it was withdrawing the case against him.

This is a classic example of Police bullying and harassment. It is no accident that they picked him up on Friday evening (one of their busiest times) and then charged him on the Saturday. That gives the Filth a chance to keep their "suspect" in the nick for three nights rather than the one - the courts aren't open until Monday. Effectively, they are imposing their own non-judicial sentence, as even a guilty finding would not have attracted a custodial sentence.

And still there is the hint of menace – or is it corporate back-covering? The CPS says investigations will continue and that "almost certainly other proceedings will ensue". What other proceedings? And what does "almost certainly" mean?

But you can see the game here. Keeping the case "under investigation" puts it in a judicial limbo and prevents Owens making a complaint until the hullabaloo has died down. The last thing they want is the IPPC crawling over this one. Give it a bit of time and the case can be quietly wrapped up with a "NFA" stamped on the file. By then the media will have gone back to sleep, and the publicity will be more manageable.

This is no longer policing, and we have to draw our own conclusions. I do draw the line at book burning, but there is no cultural symbolism attached to police stations.

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Forum - by Richard...

The forum is again open for new members ... I've made some adjustments to the security settings so I'll leave it open for a while and see how it runs. Once you have registered, you will NOT get any acknowledgement – the automatic systems have been disabled.

Thus, IMMEDIATELY you have registered, send me an e-mail, giving me your username, and I will activate your account manually and send you an e-mail back. If you have not heard back from me within 2-3 hours, please resend. AoL has spent so much money on Huff-Pus that it can't afford to run a reliable e-mail service any more, and whole batches of stuff go astray.

Membership will remain limited to 1,000 and I've cleared out some non-users to make room. With limited numbers, we get relatively civilised discussion, and some very useful contributions to the blog. I don't want the anarchy that you see on some other sites. But if you do not intend to contribute, please don't sign up. Non active accounts will simply get deleted.

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Bücherverbrennung - by Richard...




Not a good idea ... where they burn books, they ultimately burn people. But trust the plod to get it wrong. Arresting the fool, and then locking him up, just makes a martyr of him. But then, there is never a bad situation that our modern police can't make worse. We have got to a stage where the police are almost a bigger problem than the ills which they are supposed to address.

His Grace makes some good points and Myrtle trails along behind.

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Good stuff - by Richard... Sunday, April 10, 2011

... here: "Climate science and the litany of unaccountability", from Shub Niggurath. Klein Verzet, meanwhile, has about as much respect for his own government (Dutch) as we do ours – and for very much the same reasons. Both worth a read.

David Cameron, on the other hand, having been caught out, resorts to unparliamentary language. He does not dispute that he was reported accurately – he just feels that the journalist should have kept quiet.

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Keeping us in the dark - by Richard...


The Daily Failygraph is cheerfully telling us that "the Government" is considering making changes to the MOT inspection frequency. What it does not tell us, though, is that MOT certification and testing procedures are an EU competence, set out by Directive 2009/40/EC.

The reasons why the Government is now considering the change are two-fold. Firstly, new requirements are due to come into force on 1 January 2012, under Directive 2010/48/EU, so this is as good a time as any to make changes, when the inspection system has to be changed anyway, under the direction of Brussels.

Secondly, the EU in July last year issued a "communication" COM (2010) 389 final entitled: "Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011-2020". Amongst other things, this set out an intention to harmonise throughout the EU the MOT procedures, the plan being to bring in a standard "EuroMOT".

Currently, the mandated inspection frequency can vary between one and four years – the UK adopting the more stringent period of one year, but the "European standard" tends to be a two year interval, on what is known as the 4.2.2 standard.

Thus, in France, vehicles concerned must be submitted for inspection within the six months preceding the fourth anniversary of initial registration, and then every two years thereafter – with a proposal for older cars to be inspected annually (after eight years).

While there is no specific requirement for the UK to come into line (yet), the writing is on the wall, and any changes to the MOT legislation must be approved by the EU Commission. Thus, our "Eurosceptic" government is playing the usual trick. In anticipation of an EU requirement, it is bringing domestic legislation into line with the expected (but as yet undeclared) standard. Thus, when the standard is brought out, we will already comply and the government can continue pretending that it is still in control.

The media, if it had the first idea what was going on, and/or took the trouble to keep its readers informed, would be wise to this game. But you need not expect the British media to report on EU matters of this nature – not when the name of the game is to support the politicians in their pretence that they still matter.

When you think about it, they too have a vested interest. The attention goes where the power is, and thus in the United States, the nearest things they have to a national newspaper is The Washington Post. When the British people finally wake up and realise we are ruled from Brussels, we can - in the fullness of time - expect the local (i.e., London-based) papers further to atrophy, and Brussels-based papers to take over - the Brussels Times, anybody?.

Keeping us in the dark, therefore, is a matter of long-term self-interest for the media, and it is about the only thing they are now any good at.

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Election fever - by Richard...


Well, wouldn't you just know it – the local elections are next month and the Tories are feeling the heat. So up pops Pickles with a crowd pleaser or two, to get the milk of human kindness flowing in the direction of Cameron's local payroll.

On the face of it, this looks an extremely good idea – abolishing fines for "petty infringements of bin rules". The only problem is that there is a certain amount of policy incoherence here. At the heart of the penalty system is the power for local authorities to compel unwilling householders to recycle, thus assisting overall compliance with EU waste targets.

If the local authorities do not meet these targets – which is more probable if they cannot enforce recycling – then huge fines are imposed by the EU which, under the localism Bill, are passed down to local authorities, for the Council Tax payers to find. So, Mr Pickles is not exactly offering us a gift horse ... more a Trojan Horse.

The man also wants those Councils which have gone on to fortnightly bin collection to revert to a weekly cycle, an idea that has met with immediate resistance from Councils, as there is no more money on offer.

Pickles would argue that the money could be found by reducing the number of "non jobs", except that he quietly skates over the inconvenient fact that so many of these – such as "climate change co-ordinator" arise directly or indirectly through central government policy.

Councils might also argue that, when it comes to "non-jobs", central government sets a very poor example, with its so-called "Twitter Tsar", and although "Cabinet office sources" argue that this is an unfair description, there is nothing fair to the taxpayer about the salary ... an eye-watering £142,000 plus benefits, pension and expenses.

The killer argument on fortnightly bin collection, though, is that it increases recycling rates, as householders find strategies to reduce overflowing bins. And that takes us back to where we came in – the need to please our EU overlords.

Pickles has a reputation for being a clever man – although that is not difficult for a Tory politician to gain – so he is unlikely to be unaware of the EU dimension. That means he is playing silly buggers for short-term electoral gain, in the expectation that no one will realise what he is doing.

In this, of course, he can rely on the media. Not one of the newspapers carrying the story has referred to the EU. The joy comes now and we pay the price later – and we will never be told.

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Delusional - by Richard...

Picked up yesterday was this remarkable quote from the The Daily Telegraph, noting that: "If Tory members looked back at their 13 years in opposition they would, until recently, have comforted themselves with the thought that their party did at least become properly Eurosceptic during that wilderness period".

This is Tim Mongomerie, editor of theConservative Home website, continuing his breakout into the MSM, offering what he evidently believes passes for intelligent political comment. One thing for sure, I remarked, there is no way of dealing with anyone in the grip of such a delusion. They are not of this world.

Coincidentally, Autonomous Mind is struck by the volume of anti-Cameron pieces in the media that are being trailed in the Newslinks section of the website.

"For a moment", says AM, "I had to check I wasn't on Labour List. But what is notable about these pieces is that the attacks are not ideological. They are not about policy. These have been spawned by the abject failure of leadership. And there is a lack of leadership because the leader, David Cameron, has no principle or clear political direction". He continues:
It is dawning on people who supported the Conservatives in the hope Cameron would reveal an inner conservative after assuming residence in Downing Street, that Cameron is not a Conservative. What is more worrying is that it’s becoming apparent that Cameron is nothing. He is not a conservative, he is not a liberal, he is not a social democrat and he is not a socialist. In fact he stands for nothing – apart from the desire to attain office – and he has successfully deceived people by pretending to hold their political convictions when he holds none.
Rehearsing then the decay that is only too apparent in Government, AM comes to the conclusion that the only person responsible for this is the autocratic meglomaniac, David Cameron. "Devoid of conviction, belief or substance, he is not only continuing the decline of this country overseen by Labour, he is accelerating it under this insipid coalition of the self interested".

But here, we have to beg to differ – which we do rarely with AM. It is not Cameron, per se, who is the problem, but the people who put him in the position, despite the very obvious evidence that he was a wrong 'un from the start. And that, in the first instance, was the Conservative Party. So desperate were its members to win that they chose for their leader someone who, above all, they thought could win. They had absolutely no concern for what he might do, once he had "won".

To reconcile their choice with the reality, these tribal Tories then deluded themselves into thinking that Cameron was a Eurosceptic, despite the very good and growing evidence to the contrary - for not other reason than that is what they wanted him to be. And I particularly recall the aggression against anyone who dared say different - with Mr Montgomerie's website very much in the forefront. And the delusion continues, as Montgomerie still tries to convince himself, if no one else, that the Party had become Eurosceptic.

But the point about the Conservative Party is that it isn't anything, except tribal. AM condemns Cameron (rightly) for "pretending to hold their political convictions when he holds none", but that also describes the Conservative Party. It too is devoid of political convictions. It exists only to exist, and occasionally to win "power", even if it has to share it with another Party which, on the face of it, is its ideological enemy.

That this is the case is well-illustrated by the recent poll, on Tory leaders, which has the legend: "Budget boosts Osborne, Libya boosts Hague". How easily pleased the tribe is, fawning after an idiot who produces a lacklustre budget which does not even begin to address our financial problems, while applauding a fool for his ill-judged intervention in Libya, a man who is set for the title of the worst foreign secretary we have ever had.

And therein lies our main problem: Delusional Tories. They are the ones that got us into the EU (then Common Market), on a false bill of goods, because they had actually convinced themselves it was something it wasn't and never will be - a free trade area. Scratch a High Tory, and even to this day, they will tell you that free trade was the objective. He, like the Montgomeries of this world still, want to convince the world (and themselves) that they are Eurosceptic - and mightily offended they are when you do not sahre their fantasy.

But the long-standing delusion (and the aggression) is the result of their inability to cope with the fact that the default value for the Tories is Europhilia. The tribal Tory believes his party is Eurosceptic. And, to the tribe, belief is fact. Thus does the tribe survive, on a diet of fantasy. Now, when even the best of them can no longer sustain that belief without looking ridiculous, they still huddle together bleating their mantras. The tribe comes first, last and always.

Unsurprisingly, they cannot even begin to understand why so many of us - natural Conservatives all - hold them in such complete contempt, a group with as much political principle as a football fan club, and less sense. They are the Party of Cameron. Their tragedy is that they chose him. Our tragedy is that we didn't. They got what they deserved. We didn't.

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Fantasies collide with reality - by Richard...


The analyses which brought us this book on storytelling are today employed by Booker in his column, where he links global warming and the futility of wind farms with the ongoing collapse of the euro.

In several directions at the moment, he asserts, we can see the unfolding of one of the hidden patterns shaping human affairs, which years ago (in his book) he called "the fantasy cycle". It is a pattern that recurs in personal lives, in politics, in history – and in storytelling. Thus he tells us:
When we embark on a course of action which is unconsciously driven by wishful thinking, all may seem to go well for a time, in what may be called the "dream stage". But because this make-believe can never be reconciled with reality, it leads to a "frustration stage" as things start to go wrong, prompting a more determined effort to keep the fantasy in being. As reality presses in, it leads to a "nightmare stage" as everything goes wrong, culminating in an "explosion into reality", when the fantasy finally falls apart.
From that platform, Booker then goes on to evaluate the ramshackle state of the global warming argument, with reported that global temperatures, as measured by satellites, having fallen by 0.65°C since March 2010, making the world cooler now than its mean over the past 30 years. Yet again the computer models, predicting that, thanks to rising CO2, the world should have warmed in the past decade by 0.3°C, have proved hopelessly wrong.

But, if it hasn't looked too hot for the theory on which our politicians base their plans to change the world, adds Booker, then last week it looked equally dodgy for what has been one of the most grandiose of their responses to this supposed crisis. Two sets of figures exposed more than ever the degree of delusion which surrounds the wish of our governments, in Brussels and in Westminster, that the centrepiece of our energy policy must now be to build even more windmills.

The report that drew most media attention was that from a Scottish environmental charity which focused on the fact that last year, despite our building yet more turbines, the lack of wind meant that they operated, on average, at only 21 percent of their capacity – the lowest percentage ever. Several times, when demand was at record levels, the contribution of wind to our electricity supply was virtually zero.

Less attention was given, however, to figures put out by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, showing that the 3,168 turbines we have built, at a cost of billions of pounds, contributed on average, if very irregularly, only 1,141 megawatts to the national grid last year – less than the output of a single large coal-fired power station. From the DECC figures it is possible to work out that, for this derisory contribution, we paid through our electricity bills a subsidy of nearly £1.2 billion, on top of the price of the electricity itself.

Thus, in return for less than three percent of our electricity, nearly seven per ent of our billls were made up of hidden subsidies to the wind developers, a percentage due to treble and quadruple in coming years as the Government strives to meet EU "renewables" target by building up to 10,000 more turbines, at a cost of £100 billion. The dream of using the wind to keep our lights on is being shown by reality to be one of the most absurd fantasies of our time.

Booker then moves on to what he argues is, in its own way, an even greater fantasy. This is that colossal project taking shape over the past 50 years to take away the power of the nations of Europe to govern themselves and to hand it over to a weirdly dysfunctional new system of government centred in Brussels. No single element in that project was more ambitious or seen as symbolically more crucial than the wish to integrate Europe's economies around a single currency.


Back in the 1970s, when this was first talked of, Sir Donald McDougall, a senior Treasury official, was commissioned by Brussels to produce a report on "The Role of Public Finance in European Integration". He warned that economic and monetary union could only work if Europe was in effect given an economic government, with the power to dispose of between 25 and 40 percent of Europe's GDP.

This was because, as he foresaw, one of the core problems would be that if weaker countries were deprived of the power to set their own interest rates or to devalue, they would require a massive injection of resources from richer countries. Which, of course, is just what we now see being acted out in the desperate efforts to bail out Portugal, following in the wake of Greece and Ireland – with Spain, bigger than all three put together, possibly to follow.

As McDougall and many after him warned, the single currency could only work on conditions which the builders of a united Europe blithely chose to ignore, in pursuit of their make-believe. As a result, its collision with reality is now coming about, threatening a disintegration of the eurozone that could tug much of the European dream after it.

Thus speaks Booker. But what he and I talk about constantly is the ability of the current class of politicians to evade reality. By now, it should be self-evident to even to dimmest of brains that the global warming scare is idiocy, and the obvious inadequacies of the European Union should have long ago secured its demise.

The trouble is the very forces that brought these fantasies into being have also insulated the politicians from the consequences of their actions, not least with the suspension of democracy. Reality, therefore, is held in check, while the politicians continue to indulge in their fantasies long past the point when the cycle has moved on.

You would think that reality would force its way through, when people started getting killed but, in a third example of the conflict between fantasy and reality, Booker writes of the tragedy unfolding in the past few days in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. There, Iraqi and Iranian terror squads "have finally moved in to crush the 3,400 defenceless Iranian exiles who in 2003 gave up their arms in return for written personal guarantees of their safety by the US government".

Since Thursday night, more than 30 Ashraf residents have reportedly been killed and hundreds injured. This may, Booker states, be only a small example of the price so many others have had to pay for that act of folly when Bush and Blair sailed into Iraq like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza charging windmills.

But, he concludes, "our adventures in Afghanistan and Libya still have to unfold to the point where we are forced to recognise that yet another vainglorious act of make-believe has collided with reality". And, on that latter point, where the majority of British voters are against the mad project in Libya, it continues apace, with the support of the vast majority of MPs.

One could suppose that reality has simply been deferred, but the great genius of the British establishment has always to bend with the wind, changing gradually and thus avoiding catastrophic, revolutionary events. To bottle up reality, therefore, is not such a good idea. It can be deferred, but not denied. And the longer it is left, the more violent the collision.

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A shining symbol of incompetence - by Richard... Saturday, April 09, 2011

The EU's largest civilian mission, Eulex-Kosovo, was meant to prove the possibility of an effective common foreign policy. An excessive expectation, perhaps, because the EU has always been divided on Kosovo – five member states did not recognise its controversial independence, declared in 2008, and this mission became the substitute for a common policy, says The Guardian. It then goes on to add:
Still, Eulex – which costs about €100m a year and fields almost one policeman, judge or prosecutor for every 1,000 residents of this small territory – could strengthen the rule of law in Kosovo and the stability of the Balkans, and be a powerful symbol of the EU as a peaceful, rule-based force.

In three years it has achieved little. Few prominent investigations have been opened, and the local judiciary has not improved appreciably. The difficult context partly explains this failure, but the main causes are internal – incompetence, weak management and possibly even disloyalty to the mission's mandate.
When we get the Europhile Guardian saying such things, we have reached something of a milestone. All it needs to learn is that incompetence is the default value for the EU. Then, perhaps, it will realise that the only sensible option is to arrange our departure as soon as possible.

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Bye-bye democracy - by Richard...


Portugal will be offered a bailout worth €80bn (£71bn), European Union finance ministers meeting in Budapest agreed yesterday, but only if the parties contesting the country's general election in June agree to a package of austerity measures and reforms. So, the set up is that the politicians decide between them what the voters will be allowed to vote for, and only then does the election go ahead – with no choice offered on the substantive issues.

Does this sound terribly familiar?

UPDATE: And his Grace gets the point:
The EU is one great quango: it is a democratic scam which permits the politicians of each member state to promise the earth to get themselves elected, and then blame "Europe" that their manifesto pledges could not be fulfilled. This then permits each political leader to stare their electorates in the face and say, quite truthfully, "Our hands were tied; we could nothing about it; we were bound by our treaty obligations, etc., etc".
This is the point which the Little Englanders and the dyed-in-the-wool UKIPites simply do not get. The European Union is not a conspiracy of foreigners, to take over and rule Britain. It is a conspiracy of the ruling élites, on a European scale to by-pass democracy. Our leaders are part of it, it is them, the British political élites, doing it to us.

And this is, of course, why the élites love "Europe" so much. His Grace has got it absolutely banged to rights. The ritual "washing of hands" about "Europe" is all part of the act.

That is how scum like Cameron can prattle on about regulation, knowing full well that nothing substantive can happen, because most regulation is made in Brussels. But as long as he can go through the motions, with his patsies in the British Chamber of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Business (all of which were suborned long ago), and the media pretend everything is normal, then he can get away with it.

In our book, The Great Deception, Booker and I wrote of the slow-motion coup d'état - which is precisely what has been happening – and why the book is routinely ignored by the "great and the good". Slowly, slowly, almost imperceptibly, the organs of states, and the most important institutions such as the BBC, have been taken over. Our democracy has been stolen from under our very noses, not by those ghastly foreigners or the filthy Hun, but by our own élites.

A while back, I wrote:
We are a satellite state of the Greater European Empire, ruled by a supreme government in Brussels. We owe this government neither loyalty nor obedience. It is not our government. It is theirs. It is our enemy.
That is my "signature" on the forum. I left it deliberately vague – but the "government" to which I referred was not the one in Brussels. It is the one in Whitehall. We have been taken over. It is the enemy. We are its foe.

At least now, it is getting obvious. And at least now, more people are being to understand what is happening. At least now, we can start the recovery process.

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