In "his most forthright speech", Euroslime Dave is going to emote about immigration (full text here), pretending that, somehow, the situation has got nothing to do with him and his loathsome party. He always does that.
He will then quite wilfully and even laughably miscast the problem, telling us it has led to "discomfort and disjointedness" in neighbourhoods – words that do not even begin to describe the nature of the problem and its effects. Uncontrolled immigration has "undermined" some British communities, he will say. Try "destroyed", Dave.
Thus, he will offer a faux solution. However, this time, instead of ignoring the EU dimension, he now lies about it and the nature of the problem. "Yes, our borders are open to people from other member states in the European Union", he says. "But actually, this counts for a small proportion of overall net migration to the UK. In the year up to June 2010, net migration to our country from EU nationals was just 27,000".
But, as we all know, does not in any way reflect the truth. People with EU passports are just waved through the channel. They are not even counted. Dave does not have the first idea how many people from the EU have set up in the UK. And then there is the slight problem that EU-immigration brings with it acquired rights. Existing immigrants - living anywhere in the EU - can invoke EU lawto bring in their families and relatives, who aren't EU citizens. And the problem is getting worse, as you can see from this 2010 report.
To hide his omissions, we see the "smoke and mirrors" attack on Labour. This starts with a nice safe assertion that NuLab made it racist to talk about immigration. With that, he will say it is "untruthful and unfair" not to speak about the issue, "however uncomfortable". But that, of course, is just what Dave has been doing – not speaking about it. Worse, he is not dealing with it, when it comes to the problem of EU immigration. But, as long as you are focusing on the dreadful NuLab, you don't notice that.
But guess what? The speech comes three weeks before the local elections and is likely to be seen as an attempt to convince voters that the Conservatives are in touch with public opinion. Well, they aren't in touch will public opinion. And a fatuous, self-regarding, and frankly insulting little speech isn't going to make any difference, Dave.
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Even after this lot, there is no end to their malevolent stupidity. A spokesman for Essex Police said: "An investigation has concluded that, when crime details were recorded on Essex Police's systems, vital detail was missed. This was human error and the member of staff concerned has been spoken to".
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After the fall of France, even while the Nazis had united most of Europe with the bullet and the bomb, the Führer was thinking of making this permanent, with a "new order". He had in mind a "European economic system", which would "sweep away the customs barriers, quotas, currency restrictions, wastefulness and inefficiency of an anachronistic capitalist system".
At the time, the idea so worried British and free European politicians that, as early as July 1940, they felt impelled to come up with something similar. Theirs, however, would be a Europe "united by goodwill and in friendship, not by force and in terrors". It would be a Europe based upon some federal system. Armaments would be pooled and trade barriers broken down. Each nation would be allowed to conduct its own affairs in its own way with the same kind of freedom as each state in the American Union.
That, at least, was the theory. Then along came Monnet with his ideas of covert political integration, using economic integration as the Trojan Horse, the stealthy, salami-slicing of member state powers, building them into the Commission's portfolio in a process called engrenage.
And all those years later, we have the Wall Street Journal reminding us that the process still goes on. Yet, despite copious literature which identifies exactly the game the integrationalists are playing, it is still treated as a commercial or a "trade" issue. There is ignorance, and there is wilful ignorance. This is the latter.
Thus, with yet another power grab on its way, we are told in neutral terms that the European Commission has "endorsed new laws" designed to create more of a "single market" for companies selling goods and services in the European Union. The most significant is a European patent system that "would slash the price of registering an invention in the EU".
That, of course, is the carrot – the "stick" is increased EU powers, given the name "competences" to confuse the poor darling journalists. And so do they gush that the patent proposal is one of twelve "priorities" set by the Commiss"ion, the EU's "executive arm", as it seeks to extend the EU's mission of creating a true Continental market of 500 million consumers". With EU economic growth lagging behind that of Asia and the US, the Commission hopes members will approve the plans by the end of 2012.
The EU's mission, of course, is to create an all-powerful government of Europe, but the Wall Street Journal and the others doesn't want us to know that. Hence we see the continued use of the term "executive arm", instead of "supreme government". The latter might just give the game away.
For those who can crack the code, however, Jacques Pelkmans, a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, does precisely that. The single market "is the very essence of the EU. It's a permanent project", he says. And while the big projects like common tariffs and passport-free travel have been accomplished, he said, it is always possible to break down more barriers.
The College of Europe is, of course, where they train the spawn of the tranzies to become the next generation of eurocrats – thoroughly and completely brained-washed to take their place in the "new order". So Pelkmans knows what he is talking about – and so do we ... political integration.
"Even in the U.S. or Switzerland, people can get irritated that the single market is not as single as you might want," Pelkmans says, adding a dose of camouflage, to avoid being too revealing. But he tells us that the list presented yesterday is the EU's most ambitious single-market plan in a decade. It includes mutual recognition of college degrees and other professional qualifications, a carbon tax, common rules for online shopping, and a common loan programme for small businesses.
All of this, presented as economic integration, means more political integration and more power to the Commission. But it will never be discussed in those terms, by business, the MSM and, especially, politicians like Euroslime Dave. They are in favour of this sort of thing and are in collective denial, pretending to themselves and everyone else that political integration isn't happening.
Thus does our independence continue to gurgle down the drain, sold for a mess of potage and a European patent system. And we are not allowed to know.
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The blogger, Liz Watson, who originally posted the details, was forced to take them off her site, and was due in the High Court in London today, for a committal hearing to be sent to jail for posting them. (If the details go missing again, they are posted here as backup). But for a car accident that had hospitalised her, she would have been standing alongside Vicky Haigh, who was also facing a stiff jail sentence for passing on the details.
However, when the press turned up to the hearing, Doncaster MDC Social Services, which had applied for the committal order, suddenly took fright, and the hearing has been "adjourned". Booker hopes to be reporting in more detail on Sunday.
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This is seriously pathetic - shades of Afghanistan, where we are forever whingeing about the other Johnnies not pulling their weight. But this time it's Libya, with little Willie calling on "Nato" – sansthe United States – to come up with a "more powerful strike force".
This comes after former Kermit prime minister Alain Juppé demanded more action, telling France Info radio that Nato wasn't doing enough. Nato "took over air operations" from the three nations on 31 March (when the Septics pulled out) but heavy Libyan government bombardment of the besieged western city of Misrata has continued unabated with hundreds of civilians reported killed.
Meanwhile, little Willie is having to live with the embarrassment of allowing former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa to leave the country to attend talks in Doha, where Willie himself is bound, saying it was for the police and prosecutors to act if they believed they had cause to arrest him and prevent him from travelling.
All of this, of course, just goes to prove the point that there is no limit to the number of things our shoddy lot of politicians can mess up, although you have to give them some credit for their verve and the sheer breadth of their catastrophes. If there were Nobel prizes for inept governments, the Cleggerons would be in pole position.
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So, rabid left-wing bloggers try to stuff vapid left-wing thingemy. As the man says (men actually),what's there not to like? The "progressive community" was never anything but a three-card monte hustle. The only requirement for membership was sufficient naïvete to believe that your volunteer efforts accomplish anything other than enhancing the wealth, power and status of your so-called "leaders".
That's telling 'em!
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"It makes me physically ill to even contemplate having to give the vote to anyone in prison," Cameron said in Parliament. Now the European court has rejected a government attempt to overturn the ruling, and given Britain six months to draw up proposals for changing the law.
What now? Do we see "cast-iron Dave" honour his promise and abrogate the ECHR, or will he crawl back under his stone? And how long is it before people in this country wake up and realise that our politicians are no longer in charge?
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Following on from the mainly US coverage of the closure of the border between France and Italy, over the influx of Tunisian immigrants, the row has now spread to Germany, with the Federal Republic also threatening to reinstate border checks "against the interests" of the EU's free movement zone in an escalating row with Italy over Tunisian refugees.
According to our Bruno, with 23,000 immigrants already counted, Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, is pouring fuel on the fire, saying: "Thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of migrants could come from Tunisia. It's a purely European affair," as he demands EU solidarity.
Spiegel has, predictably, picked up the story, recording that the immigrants themselves have been doing their own bit of fire-raising, rioting over a bilateral agreement between Italy and Tunisia to send back those who arrived after 5 April (pictured above).
In Germany, the issue has touched off a "mini-political firestorm", with the Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich warning against sending a signal to North Africa that the borders in Europe were open. Meanwhile, the interior minister of the state of Lower Saxony called for European sanctions against the Italian government if it did not give in on the immigration issue.
Friedrich, a member of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told a German television program Monday that it was Italy's problem to handle. "Italy is a large country," he said. "Twenty-three-thousand refugees in relation to the country's entire population is no problem."
He did not say that Germany was an even bigger country, but then that's European solidarity. What are fair-weather friends for?
Anyhow, Italy seems to be sticking to its promised to give over 20,000 Tunisian refugees temporary visas allowing them to travel freely in the border-free Schengen zone, but during "bad-tempered European talks" in Luxembourg on Monday, Germany warned Italy that it will not accept the migrants and that Berlin will tear up the EU's border-free travel arrangements to stop them.
Waiting in the wings is Maria Fekter, Austria's interior minister, who has added her view, saying: "Letting these people in would only pave the way for crime, and as minister in charge of security I cannot accept that". Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister for Bavaria, warned he would stop the refugees by using regional powers to reintroduce border controls on the German-Austrian border.
"We will not accept that the Italian government simply declares that the Tunisian migrants are tourists and uses this to push them into other countries," he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "They must be sent back to their homelands".
Reuters meanwhile reports that Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, in that Luxembourg meeting with his EU counterparts, said: "Italy has been left alone. I wonder whether in this situation it makes sense to remain in the European Union".
Good question that ... we have been known, under slightly different circumstances, to ask it ourselves.
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During her days at sea, HMS RICHMOND has spent a good deal of her time protecting the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the Gulf of Aden and escorted two World Food Programme vessels as they deliver much needed humanitarian aid to the displaced people of Somalia.
To mark the end of her mission, the Spanish Force Commander Rear Admiral Juan Rodriguez visited the ship and had the opportunity to lunch with the Commanding Officer and the crew. He commended the warships efforts during her time with the EU Task Force.
"You showed your commitment with a very high rate of days at sea and excellent statistics in terms of MSA (Maritime Situational Awareness) approaches. You made the presence of HMS RICHMOND felt and contributed much to deterring piracy in the Gulf Of Aden".
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However, as one of our forum members points out, the Daily Mail is either being economical with the truth or have not researched it well enough. The guy in question is a town councillor, he is going to be deputy mayor, not the mayor and it is a 12 month position which is rotated around the town councillors.
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"And so it remained until a few years ago, when Labour told councils that they could, if they wished, remove rubbish every fortnight, ostensibly as part of a drive to meet EU recycling targets. This provoked such an outcry that the Coalition government scrapped the targets and told councils to restore weekly collections".
This is Philip Johnston writing in The Daily Failygraph about refuse collection. He is the man who once famously declared that he didn't want to refer to the EU too often in case he appeared "obsessive" to his colleagues. And so it is that in a 900-word piece about waste, he mentions the EU once, where legislation on disposal is an exclusive EU competence and thus drives the collection arrangements.
Johnson's thesis is about the "logic of localism", where he argues that local councillors should be allowed raise the money for their own refuse service and run it as they see fit on the basis of a manifesto put before the electorate. They should will the means – including, if necessary, wholesale privatisation – and they should take the rap if it all goes wrong.
Greater local decision-making must go hand in hand with proper lines of accountability, otherwise it is meaningless guff, says Johnson. Voters need to be clear where responsibility lies, because when a council stubbornly refuses to do what most local taxpayers want it to do, the remedy is in their hands: kick it out of office.
But, of course, what makes Johnson's argument particularly absurd is that he ignores the fact that the management of the refuse service (and therefore its costs) are dominated by EU law. Councillors are not allowed to "run it as they see fit" as they are bound by the directives handed down by our supreme government, and they thus act accordingly.
Therefore, what the voters want – and what they vote for is an irrelevance. The first concern of the Councillors is to meet the demands of their real masters, the government of the European Union.
Now, the point about Johnson is that he knows all this. But he doesn't want to appear "obsessive", so like his colleagues on the motoring desk, he deliberately leaves out key information, which completely distorts his writing.
You shall not be allowed to know that the EU is your supreme government that touches every aspect of your life. You shall be kept entertained by the cosy little notion that the government in Whitehall decides on things like MoT tests and local councils decide on things like refuse collection, and that our Naval operation off Somalia is run by the Admiralty.
That is the paradigm with which the babies in the Failygraph - and most of the media – are comfortable. And because they can't handle the truth, you are not allowed to know it. And the natural and obvious conclusion to draw from this is that if you want to be routinely and quite deliberately misinformed, buy a newspaper.
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After this stupidity, I suppose we'll hear that they've been given Ipods. But what is not discussed in this news item is the small but salient detail: this is an EU operation, and the rules are set in Brussels. All we get is foreign office minister Henry Bellingham saying "the Government" is reviewing the "catch and release" approach to piracy.
Funny how none of them can bring themselves to admit that "the Government" is the European Union. I wonder why that is.
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