Friday, 1 April 2011



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.


Dr Richard North


We need a new approach - by Richard... Friday, April 01, 2011


The formidable stupidity of Baroness Neville-Jones is quite wondrous to behold as she tells the Daily Telegraph that the government needs to persuade the majority of the population that the UK is a single nation. She says there needs to be a new approach in which people did not simply "rub along together and as long as people obey the law that's quite sufficient".

"[We are] trying to convince minorities in this country that they actually do have a long term future here and that it's their country as much as anybody else's", she says in an interview.

But when Euroslime Dave and his Cleggerons are doing their level best to give this country away, when "nationalism" is a dirty word in their vocabulary, and when white heterosexuals are a minority in parts of their own country (and certainly in parliament), we certainly do need a new approach.

We need one in which people did not simply listen to idiot ministers, and make it clear to them that they do not have a long-term future here – or anywhere else on this planet.

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Fred Karno's Katastrophik Kapers - by Richard...


With the "paper of record", confidently telling us (no link) that Gadaffi's regime "starts to crumble", we also learn that his "armed forces are not close to breaking point despite hundreds of allied air strikes". This is according to Admiral Mike Mullen, who has told a US Congress committee that Col Gaddafi's troops still had 10 times the rebels' firepower.

Meanwhile, the frontline of fighting has ebbed and flowed on the outskirts of Brega, a town about 800km (500 miles) east of Tripoli that has changed hands repeatedly during days of clashes. Rebels entered the town early yesterday, but were soon chased out as pro-Gaddafi forces fired shells.

By the end of the yesterday, the BBC reported that it was unclear if anyone was in control of the town, with reports saying rebels were preparing to launch yet another assault.

Further west, pro-Gaddafi forces continued to pound the besieged city of Misrata with artillery and tank fire. "If it continues for a couple more days, I'm afraid it will overwhelm the city and it will be a complete massacre," a resident told the BBC.

Nato said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties in Western air strikes on Tripoli. Earlier, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital, citing witnesses, said 40 civilians had been killed in strikes by Western forces on the city. So much for protecting the civilians ... but I suppose you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

And now the Septics are pulling out. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen have announced that American combat missions are to end on Saturday. Gates said no one should be surprised by the move, but he called the timing "unfortunate".

The Kermits and the Great War Leader, with his clockwork hairyplanes and no pilots, are going to have to take up the slack. This is getting positively embarrassing. We were better equipped in the 1940s ... see above ... when once again we were the junior partner.

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Reactions - by Richard...


"I love the new colours", says one reader. Another wrote, "Pretty good April 1st Joke!" "But what makes you think it is a joke?" I wrote back. All this greenery, you know ... could be a good thing for the planet ...

Unfortunately, we were sussed. "On the same day that Cranmer declared himself a Papist, I hardly think your own conversion likely to fool anyone, Northy", said one of our revered forum members. Bugger Cranmer. It's not the Tiber he should be crossing, but the Styx.

But ... we are back to normal. You can have too much of a good thing. Thanks Pete!

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Denial of climate change is irresponsible and dangerous - by Richard...


"The science does matter," says Caroline Selle, who works for the Energy Action Coalition in the United States.

"We face a climate catastrophe that will define our generation and the future of our country, and the solutions to this crisis will create jobs and improve public health. So why aren't we acting? Unfortunately, the answer is simple: Capitol Hill is swarming with 'climate cranks' - politicians willing to trade our future for their own political gain."

We need such dedicated people – people who think of the children and the generations to come, instead of their own narrow interests. Thank goodness, on this side of the Atlantic, we have here the European Union, the embodiment of "mother Europe" looking after her children.

Only through such bold leadership as the Community does provide will we be able to survive this catastrophe. The climate deniers know not what they do, but at least we have the EU which can transcend the interests of small-minded politicians and keep us on the right track. Who needs democracy when we have the EU Commission?

As Selle says: "Our future is at stake, and our position is non-negotiable. We need strong climate legislation based on the facts, not the politics, and we need it soon. And we are willing to stand together again and again until our message gets through".

We are so lucky that we have the EU to do this for us. The Americans could learn from our experience. Join our family and the world is your cuddly polar bear.

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Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra - by Richard... Thursday, March 31, 2011

From the school of vertically inclined micturition in an alcoholic beverage manufacturing establishment – failure in the organisation thereof – we have this delight:
Families could see energy bills soar by £434 a year as it emerged ministers underestimated the cost of rolling out a new smart meter system. When the installation of the meters in every home and business was given the go-ahead in May 2009 the cost was put at £9 billion. But this week it was revealed that the cost of installing the devices in some 53 million homes between 2014 and 2019 will reach £11.3 billion.
Is there anything this bunch of fools can get right?

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Blowing smoke - by Richard...


The British EU contribution increased from £5.3billion in 2009 to £9.2 billion last year says Robert Winnett in The Daily Telegraph - yet another of these dozy hacks who can't get his minuscule brain round the labyrinth of the EU budget.

Winnett cites the Office for National Statistics but, as you would expect, it is playing games by citing the net contribution. The figure of significance, though, is the amount we pay out, or the grosscontribution – as Myrtle the Judas goat keeps telling us.

Myrtle says the actual gross figure was £19.7 billion (presumably for 2009) but God knows where he got that figure from. He quotes himself from 2009, spraying a raft of figures that bears no relation to the one quoted.

To be fair, though – which is something I try to avoid doing, especially when Myrtle is involved – EU figures are a nightmare, not least because the EU and the UK calculated on a different basis and use different financial periods. Even the euroslime Independent doesn't do it much better. To clear up the confusion, though, the government has helpfully explained why they should be so different.

However, using the Commission sources, the gross figures stand at €11.42 for 2009, €12.918 for 2010 and €13.13 billion, in 2011 - respectively £10.04, £11.36 and £11.54 billion at current exchange values.

Referring to the net figures, however, Winnett states that the increase is equivalent to the extra money being raised from the increase in National Insurance for higher-rate taxpayers, or the new 50p top rate of income tax. He also says that taxpayers are being forced to contribute more following Tony Blair's decision to reduce the size of this country's rebate.

The fact is that the reduced payments from the EU, reflected n the higher net, do not require extra spending from the UK to make up the loss. The comparison is spurious. Yet this does not stop Tory Boy Stephen Booth, "research" director of Open Europe, prattling that: "We're now starting to see the full effect of Tony Blair's 2005 decision to give up a huge chunk of the British rebate".

Similarly, we get the ghastly Matthew Hancock, Tory MP and former aide to the preposterous Osborne, saying: "The consequences of Labour's rebate sell-out are becoming clear. These shocking new figures show that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown signed billions of pounds of our money away in return for absolutely nothing".

This is typical of the dire Tory party political games – where everything has to be couched in terms of something Labour did or did not do.

However, the rebate is actually taken into account in calculating the gross figure. The changes to the net figure result largely from reductions in farm subsidies, and regional funding. For sure, if the rebate had not been reduced, then the gross figure would have dropped, and thereby our net payment would have been cut by a similar amount.

This though, is not the point. The rebate reduction was agreed to redress distortions in the Thatcher-agreed rebate calculation, to reflect the changes in the budget structure arising from enlargement (which the Tories agreed) and the changing proportions of spending in the EU budget.

The fact that the current gross contribution is increasing roughly in line with the general increase in the EU budget is a testament both to the need for the adjustment and its success. It is one that, had the Tories headed the administration, they would have agreed as well. As it stands the UK correction in the 2010 budget still amounts to around €4.0 billion.

The real issue, therefore, is not the rebate, but the fact that we are making payments of £11.54 billion to the EU. This is happening under the current administration, led by the Tories. Little Camerslime has no intention of changing that. And that is why we are getting the Tories blowing smoke, to hide the unpleasant fact that a sum equivalent to roughly a third of our defence budget is going to the "colleagues" in Brussels.

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Outgunned and outfought - by Richard...


"Libyan rebel forces retreated in disarray yesterday as the battle in the east swung dramatically in favour of Colonel Gaddafi", says the Daily Mail. "Gaddafi loyalists are once again closing in on the key town of Ajdabiya, which they had abandoned on Saturday in the face of "devastating coalition airstrikes". Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad had already fallen again".

Then you get The Independent which has the rebels in Libya "in terrified retreat", enmeshed in recriminations against their own leadership and accusing officials dealing with the international community of misrepresenting the reality on the ground.

After twelve nights of Western military intervention that had been seen as irreversibly changing the course of this conflict, the revolutionary forces had been pushed back by yesterday evening to the last city before Benghazi, the capital of the opposition provisional government, seemingly with their confidence drained and showing little will to continue the fight.

The collapse by the revolutionary forces in the space of 48 hours "was spectacular", says the paper. But what is equally spectacular is the almost total lack of judgement of the "international community", which has got itself caught up in something it does not understand, and over which it has no control.

Right up front, of course, is the most spectacular incompetent of them all, from Boy Wonder Cameron and Hippy Dippy Hague. Not only do these buffoons seem not to have a "plan B", they didn't even seem to have a "plan A" worth talking about. Now this bunch of losers wants to give another bunch of losers more guns. And I suppose they are calling this a winning strategy?

We always knew this pair was incompetent, but they really are breaking new ground. And how interesting it is that the newspapers that were so gung ho for this adventure, and had the hots for the Great War Leader Cameron, now seem to have gone silent. There's a strange coincidence.

But Hey! At least the rebels can afford the petrol.

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What a bloody mess - by Richard... Wednesday, March 30, 2011


Libya's rebels appeared to have abandoned the country's most important oil terminal today in a chaotic headlong retreat from government forces. The retreat came despite renewed Western air strikes around the town of Ras Lanuf and as coalition allies considered the possibility of arming the rebel forces.

Cameron is not only a moron, he is a very dangerous moron.

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Foxtrot Oscar - by Richard...

Do you ever get the feeling that you just don't want to be part of this world any more? You read of the unutterable fool Clegg, and his vapourings on nuclear energy. Then you see that they really are going ahead with smart meters - the "big brother" in every house that can cut you off when you have gone over your "carbon" quota.

Then you see this and this, and you know that we've come to the end of the world as we know it. There is no way back. It's gone too far.

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