Thursday 30 May 2013

EU can't dictate to the French - Hollande

Of course not! C'est impossible! L'EU c'est moi.

The previous day's headline in the DT telling how 18,500 Spaniards applied for 11 jobs in the Prado paying £11,100 a year. The UK minimum wage is £6.31/hour, or £252/week or £12,500 pa roughly. So there are a lot of Spaniards prepared to do an incredibly boring job gazing at El Grecos 24/7 for less than UK youf will get out of bed for. 50%+ youth unemployment has an effect in a country that has not the generous UK benefits and rewards single mums as a career choice.

Ze French are having none of it. They only have 26% idle youf. French benefits are high but reserved for the French. Good to see Hollande telling Barroso to f off. I wait to see Dave doing the same.

Wednesday 29 May 2013

Sky News poll on leaving the EU, Q1 Party Donations & Dickens

Coming from a science background I start with my sources.

Click http://news.sky.com/story/1096252/ukip-set-for-european-elections-success-poll to read this informative Sky poll.

Its Sky headline is, "UKIP Set For European Elections Success - Poll "
ComRes interviewed 2,003 GB adults online between May 22 and 24 for the poll. Data were weighted to be representative of British adults and politically weighted to past vote recall.

That's twice the usual sample size of 1000 so the results will be more reliable than usual. I quote the Sky commentary on these results below:

"The survey found that 27% of those certain to vote in the 2014 contest would support UKIP, with Labour on 23% and the Tories on 21%.
The rise of Mr Farage's party has caused major headaches for the Conservatives, and the ComRes study for the Open Europe think tank found that almost two-fifths (39%) of those who voted Tory in 2010 would back UKIP if the European election was held now.
In a general election, the poll suggested Labour would take 37% of the votes, an 11-point lead over the Conservatives on 26%, with UKIP on 20% and the Liberal Democrats on 9%.
But there was some good news for David Cameron, with widespread support for his policy of renegotiating the UK's relationship with Brussels before putting the new settlement to a public vote by the end of 2017.
If a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU were held now, 37% say that they would vote to remain in the EU compared to 41% that say they would vote to leave.
But, if there was a significant return of powers to Westminster followed by a referendum, 47% would vote to stay in the EU, while 32% would still vote to leave.
The Prime Minister was rated as the party leader most likely to succeed in negotiating a better deal with 29% backing him to win back powers, with Ed Miliband on 14%, Mr Farage on 12% and Nick Clegg on 4%."
I would not disagree with any of that. The interesting bit is Cameron's renogiate policy has a lot of support. Not surprising given Joe Public will perceive it as the low risk. In fact its so low risk its impossible to deliver in any meanful way. Maybe Cameron might getback regulation on wheel tappers and shunters which Bob Crow will like but otherwise zilch.
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UKIP has always had huge problems handling and accounting for money. That is the reason Farage arranged for me to be kicked off the NEC for asking questions about the source and destination of UKIP funds. Farage sees the NEC as there to rubber stamp his decisions and of course take the responsibility if things go wrong. I was not happy with that so I had to be got rid of.

I reproduce the relevant electoral commission table for Q1 2013 below.

Click on http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/155371/Q1-2013-donations-and-loans-summary-document.pdf

to read full details of party donations lodged with the electoral commision.

Party Donations excluding public funds Public funds Total accepted in Quarter one 2013
Party                                                Donations  Public funds  Total
British National Party                      £32,000            £0            £32,000
Conservative and Unionist Party   £3,663,024 £18,373       £3,681,397
Co-operative Party                         £412,973            £0        £412,973
Democracy 2015                               £8,055             £0            £8,055
Green Party                                     £23,110       £13,831         £36,941
Labour Party                                £3,681,486 £1,754,375    £5,435,861
Liberal Democrats                           £842,710       £8,730        £851,439
Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales     £18,511    £36,060           £54,572
Scottish National Party (SNP)           £10,000     £42,971           £52,971
The Socialist Party of Great Britain  £295,775            £0           £295,775
UK Independence Party (UK I P)     £74,150            £0             £74,150

Total                                             £9,061,794 £1,874,340 £10,936,134

Interesting. UKIP can only raise 25% of the Socialist  party of Great Britain and around 18% of the Co-op, both of which presumably get large Union donations. Still £74k is barely going to cover Nigel's bodyguards. Money talks in politics something not lost on Red Ed who has more dosh than Dave! Now who would have thunk that as Mr Neil says.

Dave is working hard to rectify this as reported in today's DT City Diary. He is not going to hand over his City donors to Farage but these City slickers like to hedge their bets so NF will cop some dough, perhaps enough for another bodyguard.

The DT amusing entitles their piece by Harryet Dennys,

"A tale of Two Cities as PM steps up donors battle with UKIP ". Now as I recollect the story did not Sidney Carton take his friends place, the arsisto Charles Dannay, at the EU guilottine ending his final speech, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

The parallel is clear. Farage must take the place of the young aristo Dave at the electoral chopping block and go to the palace of red leather as his reward in heaven.

Tuesday 28 May 2013

Farage's EUKIP lacks talent and policies

I do not buy the Murdoch Sunday Times press but I gather their headline on their Farage interview was headlined,

"I must be big – I now need bodyguards"

A coment that displays the illogic and vanity of Farage. He needed protection in Scotland because there he is an unpopular man saying unpopular things. Surely Mr Charisma needs no bodyguards in his home counties' citadel! It will be costing someone, not NF, a packet to provide this vanity cover.

I gather that in the same piece Farage admits that many of the UKIP party hierarchy all of whom were appointed by Farage himself flawed characters. Its another example of his illogical reasoning that led to Andreasen and Bannerman being put high on UKIP slates. Its a long list of names of those deemed wanting by Farage. Come April 2014 there will be a cull of current and wannabe UKIP MEPs. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth but he/she who has progressed in UKIP by sucking up to NF will perish by their uncritical adulation. Worse these talentless sycophants have facilitated Farage purging people of talent and integrity from UKIP. That's why UKIP has such a huge policy vacuum.   

So its no surprise to find UKIP so bereft of policies that Bloom suggests buying policies in. Alan Sked rightly points out this lays bare UKIP's intellectual bankruptcy for all the world to see. In other political parties its people of education, experience and talent who develop party policy. UKIP is singularly lacking in members fitting these criteria. I have written before how pathetic I found Bannerman's policy efforts. They were just a rag bag of old failed Tory manifesto commitments and completely without merit.

Current EUKIP policies are invariably not thought through, self contradictory and their only idea of costing is to say everything will be paid for by withdrawing from the EU and its regulatory burden. That will save some money but not nearly enough to pay for UKIP's uncosted wish list.

There are sure fire vote losers in UKIP's policy box particulary the reintroduction of grammar schools. In the old days for very child who got into a grammar nine did not. So UKIP gains one vote and loses nine. I would withdraw tax breaks from public schools which thanks to Cameron, Clegg and Osborne are very unpopular with most of the UK electorate and are only accessible to the wealthy and priveleged ie the Tories . That gains you a lot of votes, loses none , saves tax payers money and in the long run good for the country.

As Sked points out there is a place for a Eurosceptic party in the Centre Left ground where Blair won 3 elections. Thats where UKIP has to be to win. It can never be there with Farage and his collection of Tory rejects.

Monday 27 May 2013

Farage's latest Tory deal - deja vu all over again!

Back in 2010 when Farage had resigned as leader in order to come third in the Bucks seat to dwarf Bercow and almost get himself killed in a plane crash, his stooge leader Pearson produced his whizzo electoral pact plan in the South West that UKIP candidates should stand down in about 6 seats where there was an avowedly Eurosceptic Tory candidate to avoid spliting the right wing vote. Pearson was the UKIP leader who had not bothered to read his own General Election manifesto and resigned shortly after the May 2010 UKIP electoral failure to allow Nigel to return from his temporary Bucks exile. Pearson's proposals were not well received by the UKIP activists in the South West. Let us hope the Hamiltons meet the same frosty reception in 2014.

Roll on 3 years to the run up to the 2015 general election and I read in today's DT, "Farage in talks on deal with 20 Eurosceptic MPs", is the headline. As it says in Eccelesiastes the sun rises and the sun sets and there is nothing new under the sun even the one that shines out of Farage's bum on the poor saps in UKIP. Click on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10081456/Nigel-Farage-I-can-do-deals-at-the-next-election-with-20-Conservative-MPs.html to read the piece now entitled, "I  can do deals with 20 Conservative MPs at next election". Why only 20 Nigel, why not the 100 who are currently feeling their majorities. That's the figure Nads mentions in her Sunday paper piece.

The DT piece also reveals that follwing his less than successful visit to Scotland Nigel has had to hire a team of bodyguards to protect himself in Westminster. How much is this costing UKIP? Nigel does not do paying but he is quoted that UKIP is mounting a fresh drive to recruit more white working class Labour voters. Are these the bodyguards referred to in the previous paragraph?

What will the deal be to support these untrustworthy Tories? What will be the payback to UKIP? There will of course be no details that the UKIP NEC will see because the deal will be between Farage and the Tories not UKIP and the Tories. Farage has long craved the warm feeling of red leather on his bum. That would allow him to maintain his lucrative position as MEP and obergruppenfurher in Brussels. Its a win win situation for Nigel.but on his own figures 20 UKIP activists will be shafted. Clearly a price worth paying as Nigel does not have to do the paying. Lord Farage of Brussels or even Waterloo only a few miles away.

The real politik is that Pearson has a valid point. In 2010 in Wells the LibDem Tessa Munt defeated the Euro sceptic Heathcote Amory by 800 votes with the UKIP candidate who in losing his deposited polled 1710 votes more than twice La Munt's majority. The same thing happened at Eastleigh where if the Tories had stood down in favour of Mrs James she would have been elected as MP with a 10000+ majority and would be headed to be UKIP leader by acclamation at the next Sept conference.

The problem is one can never trust the Tories or ex-Tory Nigel Farage. My word is my bond used to be the dictum in the City but not any more. It is a conumdrum that I can see no way out of without breaching electoral law. Cameron did his sordid deal wih Clegg not for the good of the country but to get into Downing Street. Clegg did it to get his bum into the Cabinet with his dodgy cronies like Huhne and Laws. It was for the good of the country they cry. Bollocks I say self interest rules OK in politics, always has always will. It was the same when Farage tried to tell me many Tory MPs entered parliament to serve their country. I laughed. MPs serve themselves and help themselves to as much public money as they can get without going to gaol.

Clegg signed a pledge to the students in public before the last election. After he had their votes that pledge was not worth the paper it was written on. Note how that other LibDem pledge on giving constituents the power to recall MPs who break their election promised has mysteriously disappeared from the political landscape. I wonder why?

It can't be done within our current system of  party dominated representative democracy. The only way out is the Swiss referendum way. If 10% of the electorate in a constituency demand their MP resign and contest a by-election then it happens. That would be a stiff test to pass given only 60% of the electorate bother to vote but it would provide a real discpline on our sordid MPs who get elected and thenwave two fingers at the electorate for the next 4 years.

I can hear the criticism now, its not the British way, what about the Queen etc. Well it seems to work jolly well for the Swiss who have created a great country and they don't even have a Queen. Note however our royal family are very fond of holidays in Switzerland and ask yourself why? Even Mrs T used to go on holiday there. Its nice to stay in a country that works and lacks diversity.

Sunday 26 May 2013

Alan Sked on Nigel Farage

Today's Sunday Telegraph has an interview with Alan Sked, UKIP's founder headlined,

Ukip's founder says the party has gone 'completely fruitcake

Click on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10080835/Ukips-founder-says-the-party-has-gone-completely-fruitcake.html to read the wide ranging piece. I met Alan Sked about 4 years ago at a Freedom Society meeting at East Coker where he was a speaker along with Roger Helmer. Sked was excellent and I had a long chat with him after the meeting on our mutual friends at the LSE. The host worked for ABN Amro and was the first person who hinted the RBS takeover of ABN might well cost Fred the Shred his job.

Sked is a heavyweight political thinker. Helmer is a typical old Tory with typical old Tory views.

Sked's opinion of Farage is summed up by this quote,

"Ukip’s original leader even said that he tried to oust Mr Farage when he organised a conference exploring Ukip’s future direction after it failed to win any seats in the 1997 general election.
Prof Sked described the event as “bizarre” and disloyal. He expelled Mr Farage and two other leading members of the party. However, the trio took legal advice and were told they had a case for being unfairly dismissed.
“I had to drop it,” says Prof Sked. “Ukip was down to about £40,000 back then. We couldn’t waste money on lawyers to fight Nigel.” The historian resigned as leader soon after Mr Farage and his two allies returned to the party"
Farage and his cronies have always been very litigious. UKIP have lost some expensive cases over the years.
Prof Sked criticised the way Mr Farage and his allies subsequently removed a passage from Ukip’s literature which said the party “is a non-sectarian, non-racist body with no prejudices against foreigners or lawful minorities of any kind”.
UKIP may now find its record in this area more closely scrutinised!
Clearly the Telegraph want to undermine UKIP to help the Tories. They won't be short of material.



Saturday 25 May 2013

City starts to desert Tories for UKIP

This is the news I have waited for since 1972.  This is now crunch time. Brussels aka the Franco Prussian empire is now posing a seious threat to the City. This is very close to home for the metropolitan elite. Its not some fisherman or manufacturing plant way North of Watford its right in the heart of London and more deadly than anything the IRA ever did there. Click on link to read the DT story today. 

Its headlined, "City firms switching from Tories to UKIP, says Nigel Farage", but it looks like Stuart Wheeler's work to me. Either way its great news. “There is a growing feeling that we should be regulating our own country, with the view that we should be a global, not a European, financial centre." This is nice spin but the truth is more mundane, business and money. Andy Brough, a major hedge fund manager is reported to have joined UKIP although he declined to be interviewed for the piece. Crispin Odey if anything a bigger hedge fund figure organised a meeting for Farage to address the hedgies and do a Q&A session which seems to have gone down very well. Odey is not reported as joing UKIP. He is behaving as a hedge fund manager should and hedging his bets.

The penny has started to drop that the EU intends to relocate the City financial business to Paris and Frankfurt with a huge loss of very well paid jobs in London. Hedge funds and investment banks M&A activities are the driving forces behind all the lucrative legal and commercial business in London. Take them away or make it difficult for them to do business and they will go elsewhere and it won't be to Brussels, Frankfurt or Paris. Zurich and Singapore will be the favoured relocatio.n spots. The hedgies want to stay in London if they can and will now start to exert real pressure on Cameron.

These are Cameron's own people almost all puiblic school types whom Cam, Sam and Gideon like to socialise with and tap for funs for the Tories. Take that away an d it hits the Tory posh boys where it hurts. Odey knows this and without City donations many Tory MPs will be ex-MPS within two years so more pressure on Dave.

They will be quite happy to give to UKIP but will want to see a return on their money. Farage will have to deliver that both personally which he will do but also have keep UKIP MEPs and Councillors on message. The former group is no problem as they want to be high on UKIP MEP slates and that is in Fatrge's gift. More difficult  to control will be the recently elected UKIP councillors some of whom fit the fruit cakes and loony description.  Reeve seems to be the nominated enforcer for these people. I predict trouble ahead in this area.

The Tories desperately need City donations to fund their 2015 election campaign. They don't want to see these funds drain away to UKIP. They will therefore mount an ever more vicious campaign against UKIP's fruit cakes and loonies of whom there are many. Can UKIP handle this assault? Not with their present party hierarchy only Stuart Wheeler cuts the mustard. The rest have to be quickly moved aside and replaced by more able individuals. Farage cronies won't do. He who pays the piper calls the tune.and hedgies only back winners.

If Farage does not deliver they will quickly find someone else who can. 

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Farage's EUKIP does not do details

That is the title of an excellent piece in today's DT, click on link to read.

There is now a full range of UKIP policies but most are incomplete and as Alllister Heath points out merely uncosted aspirations. As UKIP support rises these pseudo policies will come under increasing scrutiny contradictions and holes will be exposed until they fall over.

As the Autonomous Mind blog, click here to read, points out the title should read Farage does not do details. "After all, Farage alone calls the shots and the party dances to whatever tune he chooses to play on any given day." as the AM blog puts it, "Unless and until Farage gets serious about withdrawal, does detail and understands the mechanics and states the strategy to enable the UK to leave the EU, while maintaining our access to the single market – and crucially ensuring we can trade with those other countries around the world with whom trade agreements only cover EU member states – the ‘No’ campaign will lose any referendum."

Exactly.  An in/out EU Referendum tomorrow would deliver a resounding vote to stay in the EU on current terms. It needs a lot of hard graft by UKIP now starting with getting some serious business people to put the withdrawal case to rebut the Branson pickle self interest propaganda.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt will be the weapons of these self serving businessmen some of whom are tax exiles.  EUKIP should be mounting a campaign right now to rebut this despicable money driven campaign. Will they? Diificult while they continue to be based in Brussels and financially controlled by the EU.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

The Relentless Charm of Nigel Farage

This is the title of a very interesting piece in Prospect click on  to link read. It was written based on Farage's performance in the South Shields by election. It rightly empasises Farage's strengths, his ability to converse meaningfully with ordinary people something other political party leaders lack. The Frank Field quote sums it up, Farage operates in the gap between the political elite and the ordinary people. Its a big and growing gap which Farage exploits very well and is a major reason for UKIP's recent strong electoral showing.

It rightly points out Farage is best on two issues, immigration  and the invisible EU referendum. Following the implosion of the BNP the former issue belongs to Farage. The latter enables Farage to exploit the huge democratic deficit in the UK with LibLabCon contortions to avoid giving the British people a vote on leaving the EU. On other issues particularly economics Farage is much weaker. I saw Wolfe, UKIP's City of London spokesman on the Daily Politics yesterday and I thought he did OK. Unfortunately UKIP's Tim Congdon, a good technical monetary economist, is a poor communicator when talking to Joe Public.

UKIP's problem is it is the Nigel Farage party. The Prospect piece makes the point that the boozing and the fags will be taking its toll on Farage to say nothing of the injuries he sustained in the air crash. If he goes for whatever reason UKIP will crumble. He has had more than his fair share of luck but eventually it will run out and he has not developed the party organisation bequeathed to him by Roger Knapman..

Monday 20 May 2013

Businesmen speak only for themselves and their profits and bonuses.

Or as Guido Fawkes puts it, 'the dubious judgement of the Europhile crowd'. Click on link
to read it as he wrote it but I reproduce some of it below.

Guido has done a little digging into the background of the signatories to the letter to the Indy claiming we would lose £90 bn a year if we left the EU. I think they got the sign the wrong way round that is what we would gain by leaving the EU and what Sorrel, Branston Pickle and Roland Rat would lose. Here is the list with Guido's comments:



  • Roland Rudd – corporate lobbyist for multinational firms and campaigner for Britain’s membership of the single currency which he still believes in.
  • Richard Branson – non domciled, campaigned for Britain to join the Euro and wants a single European army.
  • Martin Sorrell – Chief executive of advertising agency WPP – Roland Rudd’s boss who owns Rudd’s Finsbury PR.
  • Dame Helen Alexander – former chief executive of the Economist.
  • Lord Kerr – Foreign Office and UKREP career as a diplomat who helped draft the EU constitution.
  • Sir Andrew Cahn – career civil servant and worked for Lord Kinnock at the EU Commission, who infamously with his wife Glenys received more than £10 million in pay, allowances and pension entitlements during their time working at the European Union in Brussels.
  • Sir Nigel Sheinwald – non exec director of Shell, who brokered the ‘deal in the desert’ between Tony Blair and former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Sir Roger Carr – Chairman of Centrica who criticises business for their “greed” while hiking energy costs. Outgoing President of the Euro-loving CBI.
The usual suspects and men of dubious judgement. They might as well have got Huhne to sign it…


Guido has a thing about Huhne and he wrote an earlier piece based on a Jeff Randall/Peter Oborne clip called the Guily Men. I reproduce it below:


Jeff Randall mentions in passing some more Guilty Menthat Peter Oborne missed in his fast-selling pamphlet for the CPS, namely the authors of an earlier pamphlet published in 2002 “Why Britain Should Join The Euro” written by Richard Layard (LSE), Willem Buiter (ex-BoE MPC and eurocrat), Chris Huhne, Will Hutton, Peter Kenen (the Princeton University academic famous ironically for his work on optimum currency areas ) and Adair Turner. In this nonsense filled pamphlet for Britain in Europe they asserted:
“Opponents of the euro have forecast disasters which have in fact never happened and which always looked most unlikely… Euro-sceptics constantly underestimated the competence of Europeans and their ability to organise things properly.”
These Guilty Men are not the types to apologise. It is remarkable that Will Hutton, Chris Huhne and Adair Turner are now prominent tub-thumpers for carbon based global warming. Demonstrating, once again, their characteristic quality of  judgement.



I knew Buiter at the BoE. He was a decent bloke for a Dutchman but is it not interesting the Europhile names are all guys who have made zillions from the EU and its associated client groups? Money talks as they say and when it gets to the Europhiles it gallops faster than an Alan Wood nag.

These Europhiles do not give a jot about ordinary British workers or our way of life. The EU however is a great way to maintain their lifestyle, position and prestige and that is what is really important.

Farage advertises for ex-Tory mad, swivel eyed loons

This morning, after my dear wife had perused our DT it was passed to me and inside I found a full page ad from UKIP's Fuerher. It reminded me of what is written on the Statue of Liberty, 'Give to me, your poor, your swivel eyed loons yearning to be free and I will make them poorer still'

Its not as if UKIP does not already have its full complement of swivel eyed ex-Tory loons! The ad must have cost a fair bit so I presume moneybags Wheeler signed the cheque.

I liked Farage's line about a government, 'run by a bunch of college kids who have never had a proper job in their lives'. There are plenty of those in Labour and LibDems who fit that description so why restrict your market to just ex-Tories Nigel.

Following on the Fuerher's retreat from Edinburgh I was asked a couple of months ago by our resident Lord Pantsdown  how I felt about the SNP given I was in UKIP. I corrected him on the latter point saying I was no longer a UKIP member and was in fact on their blacklist subsequentl confirmed by Crowther. On the whole Scopt Nat thing I replied that for me the choice was simple. Did I want to be ruled by a bunch of Old Etonian wankers and their div 2 public school buddies who only went to Scotland to shoot a few stags or a bunch of Scottish bred, Scottish educated hard men like Alex and  George Galloway. No contest. Gimme the hard men every time. Let the metropolitan homosexuals marry each other and die out asap.

Its really the same question that UKIP should be putting. Do you want to be ruled by the Prussians and their Junkers or by your own people? Which group has the interests of  Britain at its heart?

The attempt to claim that we benefit by £90 bn is propagnda at its best. I would say the EU costs us £90bn per annum by its restrictive rules and regulations it imposes on us. Remember that the captains of industry are only interested in their share bonuses and company profits. Screwing down the workers wages is the easiest way to increase their obsecene rewards, often for failure. Remember these cronies of Tony were the same people predicting doom if we did not join the Euro in 1997.

The EU is the political project of the Euro elite and an economic disaster. Ask in the tavernas of Greece and Tapas bars of Spain to confirm the truth about the EU. (Asking ex-third div public schoolboys in the bordellos of Brussels will produce the wrong answer assuming you can find them sober.)

Good to see Roger Helmer, the ultimate UKIP ex old Tory on TV defending Farage after he was run out of Edinburgh in a police van. Just the image to increase the SNP vote.

Friday 17 May 2013

Farage is God's gift to Alec Salmond

Farage is showing his stupidity on TV today by calling the Edinburgh student demonstrators fascist scum. They retalite by labeling UKIP as the BNP in nicer suits. Tough on NF in his pin stripe.

The SNP are now piling in to give him a deserved kicking. He has compounded his mistake further. Helmer did not help on C4 news tonight. He looks and souds like a typical old Tory which he is. There are more pandas in Edinburgh zoo than Tory MPs in Scotland.

The Scots detest London smart boys who wear Arthur Daley coats. Best stick to the home counties Mr Farage.

Thursday 16 May 2013

Farage needs police protection in Edinburgh

Obviously the claimed charisma does not work North of the border in my home city, motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit. Click on link to read and watch BBC report.

Farage mobbed by angry crowd

Don't mess with the Scots NF is the message.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Somerset Tories target UKIP controlled Ramsey Council

Tomorrow we vote in our local Somerset  County election in the election which was held over following the sad death of UKIP candidate Audrey Spencer. I was asked to step in and out of respect for Audrey's memory I agreed to rejoin UKIP and stand. My application was rejected. No reasons were given to me or the Yeovil branch. That is the EUKIP way learned in the bars of Brussels. Thank goodness the  excellent Yeovil branch chairman Nigel Pearson managed to find another candidate and get her name on the ballot paper.

Yesterday I had a leaflet from the curiously named Marcus Fysh the Tory candidate. He has a special section on voting UKIP. His most telling point is,

"UKIP increased council tax by 28% at the only council they control. Somerset Tories have frozen council tax for the last four years"

Now I only know of one council UKIP controls, Ramsey. It has as its mayor Lisa Duffy, UKIP's Party Director. Her partner Peter Reeve, UKIP,  is also on the council so its very much a UKIP family business. The Tories are biting back and this is their first UKIP target. They have chosen well. Reeve and Duffy have lots off  political baggage, not up to Hamilton scale but more recent and closer to NF. We live in interesting times and tomorrow I will be able to vote for a UKIP candidate.

Tuesday 14 May 2013

EUKIP's betrayal of our cause and Labour's betrayal of the working class

I have no idea where the current shenanigans in Tory Westminster over enabling bills, amendments to the Queen's speech, hypothetical EU referendum's in 4 years time etc will end but of one thing I am sure its not talked about in Brussels where EUKIP and its leadership live and take their EU payoffs. It is debated and discussed in the UK and it will be settled in the UK. It shows the irrelevance of Farage's Brussels 'strategy', although that euphenism flatters EUKIP's personal greed as a political process.  They are only in Brussels for the money in their pockets not to save our country for our children.

It must by now be abundantly clear to a one eyed cat that Farage' s EUKIP is no more than an off shore  pressure group and not a political party. To influence this fast moving debate and try and get us this referendum and win it requires a party headquarters in London with a leader and advisors based there 24/7 not in the bars of Brussels. Things are moving very fast and Dave is running scared. Clegg and Millipede are also vulnerable.

We have to fight the battle for the UK in the UK with our own money. It cannot be fought and won in Brussels on EU money that can be withdrawn any time.

The Mail online runs an excellent piece by Tim Shipman entitled,


Immigrants? We sent out search parties to get them to come... and made it hard for Britons to get work, says Mandelson


  • Former minister admits Labour deliberately engineered mass immigration
  • Between 1997 and 2010 net migration to Britain totalled 2.2million


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324112/Immigrants-We-sent-search-parties-to-come--hard-Britons-work-says-Mandelson.html#ixzz2THVCdrjZ




Mr Neather , a Mandelson advisor, said the policy was designed to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’. 
He said there was ‘a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural’.


It shows that to score political points Labour conspired to reduce the wages of their core supporters and hand over their jobs and council houses to immigrants to make the UK multi-racial. Now I don't ever recall reading that in any of Tony's Labour manifestos. I wonder why not?.

Young Mr Heaver has written a similarly themed  piece on his Telegraph blog. It would be nice to know which piece came first?

The BBC, true Europhiles to a man, ran a clip of Ken Clarke on the 6pm news tonight pooh poohing the idea of leaving the EU saying we would be foolish to do so. It suddeny reminded me of another pompous overweight man with a loud voice, loud opinions supported by zero facts. I refer to Cap'n Bob Maxwell. 

You can look forward to a mega FUD, Fear Uncertainty & Doubt, campaign from the Europhile establishment. Enjoy but don't swallow!  

Monday 13 May 2013

FT tells truth about us and the EU - at last!

The FT is the most Europhile UK newspaper.  When a young man Nigel Lawson used to write for it. I was staggered to read today's headine,

"Lord Lawson is right - Britain does not need Europe"

 for a piece by Wolfgang Munchau that I recommend you click and read,

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08ce43b0-b8d9-11e2-869f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2TBFx2Vg2

It says all I have known about the UK's relations with the EEC/EU but what the UK Europhiles have never admitted. His final paragraph sums it up,

"My overall conclusions, however, concur with his. There may be reasons why the UK may wish to remain a member of the EU. But whatever they are, they are not economic."

There never was an economic case for entry in 72/73. It was a political decision that the could not be justifed by political argument so the political elite resorted to a scaremongering econmic  story to terrify the UK voters. They are still doing it! They continuously imply there will be 3 million jobs lost if we dared leave the EU.  It is a complete lie. The truth is the exact opposite = leaving the EU will create jobs by removing the dead hand of the EU from the UK's neck.

It came up tonight on C4 news when the young Tory fogie, Jacob Rees Mogg, pointed out that we would have had a free trade agreement with the US years ago had we not handed over the negotiations to the EU. That is the plain truth.  

Sunday 12 May 2013

Lawson, Healey & Lamont say leave the EU

It is quite staggering that 3 former chancellors have publically come out against UK continued membership of the EU. Healey is now 95 should have been Labour leader and PM in the mid seventies after Wilson retired but like David Milliband he was defeated by a lesser man Callaghan who grovelled to the unions. He was famous as the chancellor who turned round at Heathrow because of a sterling crisis. Sunday morning and Michael Forsyth, former Tory Scottish secretary has come out against membership of the EU. He and Lamont are not premier league but Lawson, Healey and Portillo are very much champions league performers.

Booker this morning in the Telegraph urges using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to firm up the arguments but of course the 1972 European Act will have to be repealed.  There is clearly a strong wish amongst the British people to leave the EU and negotiate our own trade deals with Europe and the wider world from outside the EU and designed in the interests of Britain. Our problem is to get a fair referendum on leaving the EU put to the British people something the political elite of all parties bitterly oppose.. Why?

The reason is the EU provides a huge financial gravy train for the political elite to line their pockets. It gives a world platform for this largely self appointed and self perpetuating elite to strut and preen their huge egos which go with their limited inteligence and massive greed.

Look at the Kinnocks, an EU happy family. Mr Kinnock, aka the Welsh Windbag, Mrs Kinnock and Master Kinnock have all had huge amounts of EU money over the years. What talent or training does Mrs Frtumpy have to be head of the EU Fororeign Office with a salary three times he Briitish PM.

EU massaging of the political elite egos and bank balances starts with lavishly subsidised school trips to Brussels and Strasbourg and paid internships for the well connected jeunesse doree like Pinnochio Clegg who was found a nice little job in EU commissioner Leon Brittan's office to ease his way into the euro political elite. Huhne was another who enjoyed EU munificence at an early age. They and many others saw which side their bread was buttered on and also that the views of the electorate were irrelevant to the Euro ruling class.

This was clearly shown in an interview Andrew Neil did with a French MEP whose constituency she claimed includes London. (How?) She was quite clear this was a matter for Britain's political leaders to sort out. That says exactly why we should not be in the EU and never should have joined the EEC. I was working for the Civil Service in 72/73 and it was clear then that our culture and system was incompatible with the European dirigiste regimes. The economic argument was used as a smokescreen to cover the federalist intentions of our political elite, Woy, Teddy, Shirl etc. It is now clearto Joe Public this was a massive con. The economic future of this country lies with the Commonwealth, and the other BRICs.

I have written this over two days so I update from the Sunday papers and TV.  Twinkletoes Cable in the Telegraph in furtherance of his leadership ambitions takes as Eurosceptic position as I have ever seen a senior LibDem espouse in public but of course the greatest contribution came fro Michael Gove, a cabinet minister, who said on the BBC Marr lite  show that if there were a referendum on our EU membership tomorrow he would vote for us to leave! He added his preferred option would be the Dave renegotiation but he obviously thinks that day will never see a dawn.

Cleeg's duplicitous nature is documented in a Daily Mail piece by the irrepressible Quentin Letts. Click to read

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322716/How-Clegg-held-Britain-ransom-Nick-Cleggs-cynical-double-dealing-stabbing-Coalition-colleagues-By-QUENTIN-LETTS.html



We are winning the argument to leave the EU. Now we will find out if Farage is up to winning the war.


Thursday 9 May 2013

Time for another election

This coalition government is finished. The Queen's speech was content free and there will be 5 days wasted debating its vacuity! Its not as if the country has no problems, there are problems everywhere you look. Dave is now Clegg's prisoner and totally impotent. What are these guys going to do for the next 2 years?
In  2010 Dave was so desperate to get into Downing St. he would have signed anything. He was elected leader by persuading Tory MPs he was Eurosceptic. He is a man without principle. a vacuous PR man and a  self confessed Europhile like Clegg.

So where now? I cannot see the Tory backbenchers not kicking up. Most of them detest the LibDems, with good reason in my opinion and don't trust Dave. Many expect to lose their seat so they are not susceptible to whip's pressure. They have put down an amendment to the Queen's speech, very unusual but entirely within the rules. There have been rumoursall day  that something was being cooked up and it is now reported by the BBC click on link to read.

It seems the Speaker who of course hates Dave will allow this amendment to be tabled. Former chancellor Lamont has come out virtually backing the Nigel Lawson line that we would be better off out of the EU. BoJo, Dave's likely successor is very equivocal and clearly preparing to challenge Dave if things go the right way for BoJo.

There is a clear right wing anti-EU vote which if not split would deliver a big majority. The only problem is no one trusts Cameron and Farage has stated he will not enter into any electoral pact with the Tories whilst Cameron is leader. That puts the ball in the Tories court. Their Europhiles, Howe,  Heseltine, Clarke and Hurd knifed Mrs Thatcher in the back. Its time for the Tory Eurosceptics to show the same ruthlessness or leave the field clear for UKIP.


The slimey LibDems will vote against any attempt to give the electorate the EU referendum they want. We cannot have government dictated by a minority party with nutty policies on wind farms etc. Lets have an election now and end this fatuous state of affairs. No more coalitions please and there can be no meaningful renegotation with the EU so lets have a straight in out vote asap.

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Welcome to the Fourth Reich

We fought a bloody brutal six year war  plus 8 further years of shortages and rationing to avoid living under German rule. What our fathers and grandfathers fought for has now been pissed away by our metropolitan elite personified by Pinochio Clegg. The Germans now run the EU which means they run the UK. Maybe its time for Betty von Battenburg to catch up with her German relations that her family ditched as too embarassing circa 1914.

Dr Frau Merkel and her Prussian Junkers now call the shots. Their brutal imposition of austerity on Southern Europe reminds me of the arbeit macht frei slogan Adolf and his chums used to be fond of.

German industry is very efficient and when it is also making the trading rules and has the benefit of an undervalued currency, the Euro, it becomes unstoppable. That is the problem, where will the Fourth Reich stop? Kissinger said Germany is too big for Europe and too small for the world. I don't think Merkel agrees with the last part.

The Germans have always been a warlike race. After Hannibal at Cannae where the Romans lost 8 legions their next biggest defeat was at the hands of the Germans in 9 AD in the Teutoborg forest where Varus lost 3 legions plus supporting troops. This was no citizen army as at Cannae but a well trained, disciplined tough professional imperial army commanded by Publius Varus. Tiberius Caesar  was very upset  and in his cups used to cry Varus give me back my legions.

Nationl character does not change. The German sooner or later will want to take on the world and thanks to Clegg and his ilk our young men and women will be the cannon fodder in the EU Wehrmacht. We can be sure of one thing it won't be our politicians who will be doing the dying. They will be safe tucked up in their Brussels bunker.

When the LibDems run their 3 million unemployed if leave the EU just say well if that happens there will be at least another 4 million unemployed in Germany. The truth is that leaving the EU and ditching Brussel's rules designed for Germany will create not lose jobs in the UK and avoid us being dragged into mid European wars and squabbles. Let us leave that to the master race to sort out in their own inimitable way.

Click to watch how its done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6bDXCWkhV8&feature=player_embedded

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Nigel Lawson & the lying LibDems

Nigel Lawson was by far the ablest UK chancellor in my life time. He started with the FT Lex column and was intellectually superior to his HMT civil servants something no one is every going to say about Gideon Osborne whose driver might know more about economics than he does. So when Lawson penned an aricle for the Times saying that the UK would be better off out of the EU the chattering classes sat up and took notice. He added that Cameron would come back with zilch from his rengotiation with the EU and likened it to Harold Wilson's window dressing exercise in 1975 preceding his meaningless refereendum.

The BBC immediately wheeled out Pinochio Clegg to regurgitate two of the hoary old LibDem lies that are almost as old as Shirley Williams.

Leaving the EU will cost 3 million jobs a claim that is patent bollocks. We have traded with Europe since humans have lived in the UK. There was no EU thank God in 4000 BC otherwise we would still all be living in the stone age under pre-historic EU regulations. The truth is that with the UK out of the EU the Germans will continue to sell us motor cars and buy our whisky. We want their cars and they want our whisky. Its that simple. Nothing to do with the single market but what we will be rid off is the dead hand of Brussels bureacracy which as I pointed out recently is controlled by, and promotes the German car industry. Out of the EU we would at least thave a level playing field.

Then Clegg, his nose growing ever longer claims the UK pensioners living in Spain would immediately be kicked out and sent back to blighty. His claims of equality in the numbers of Brits working in Europe and the number  of EU citizens  working in the UK have been shown to be another lie. London has the 4th largest French population of any city in Europe. Only Paris, Lyon and Marseille have more frogs.

The Spanish economy is in dire straits. UK Spanish resident pensioners spend their pensions there. They keep whats left of the Spanish economy going.

The Spanish property market is depressed. If they forced UK pensioners to sell up it would go into free fall. The Spanish are not that stupid. They now leave tilting at windmills to Don Clegg and Pancho Cable.

UK pensioners are putting money into the Spanish economy. Spaniards working in the UK are taking money out of the UK economy.

The LibDems are not just delusional they are slimey with it. Remember their signed pledges to UK students not to put up their fees. It was all forgotten once the votes were in and LIbDem bums were on the seats of ministerial limos. I detest LibDems for their lies which are peddled by the BBC as truth. Its pure propaganda.

Guido Fawkes reports that Blair sprog 3 now works for the EU.  Now that's what the EU is really for, jobs for the political elite and their relations!

Sunday 5 May 2013

Fantastic UKIP result. Quo vadis?

The local election results were far better than UKIP's wildest dreams with a 139 seat gain from 2009. Warmest congratulations all round particularly to my  former Yeovil branch that gained 2 seats and just missed a third, Iminster, by 11 votes thanks to an EDL candidate taking 42 votes. I hope the Filipino lady they have found to replace the late Audrey Spencer in our ward also enjoys success in 12 days time.

I thought Farage's use of Ken Clarke's clown comment was brilliant in relating it to how much it put on the UKIP vote. It was an all round excellent set of media performances by Farage which underscored UKIP's success.

It was not a conventional protest vote that UKIP secured rather a rejection of the whole careerist politician system that is now endemic in LibLabCon. People are sick fed up of being ruled by juveniles who have never done a proper job, have lived the life of the political elite since they were 16, have no conception of how ordinary people live and speak their own nerdy polspeak that no one outside Westminster understands.

Farage with his man in the pub, fags and booze image tapped into this mood brilliantly. Camerton's enemies loved it. This morning on the Sunday Politics David Davies could hardly keep the smile of his face. Nobody likes Clegg even the LibDems and he is the other big loser. Milliband does not have to do anything just avoid mistakes to walk into No 10 in May 2015. The left wing press like the Guardian will big up Farage no end to keep the right wing split. Tha'ts why they published the Farage/UKIP front page below on Saturday.


They will continue in this vein but of course the Guardian is only compusory reading in the BBC not in UKIP households.


But where to now for UKIP or as the Romans said Quo Vadis.  On 2ndAugust 216 BC Hannibal inflicted the worst  defeat on a Roman  army at Cannae. Rome had an army of 40000 legionaires plus 40000 auxiliaries and calvalry. On that day 60,000 were killed. Not even WWI battles had so many dead on one day. After the battle, Hannibals calvalry commander Maharabal urged an immediate attack on Rome and when Hannibal refused Maharabal castigated him saying " You know how to win a victory but not how to use a victory".  Hannibal wandered about Italy for the next 10 years. The Roman alliances held and Hannibal retreated to Africa and eventual defeat by Scipio at Zama.

That is the situation Farage is in. What does UKIP do now.The only tactic to emerge so far is to get Farage a place in the leaders debate which may precede the 2015 general election. The BBC will have a big say in that decision but its definitely worth while putting down a marker right now. Personally I doubt there will be a leaders debate this time. Winning in the Europeans in 2014 will achieve nothing other than lining the pockets of Farage sycophants.

There will be a fight back by the establish parties but particulary the ConLibs who lost most. This will be fought in the media on two fronts, policy and people.

The Tories will certainly launch a new immigration policy that they will claim is tougher and protects indigenous hard working families blah, blah, blah. More difficult will be the EU referendum. I expect backbench Tories feeling their diminishing majorities will table a mandate enabling bill this session and challenge Cameron plus his quislings to vote it down. I am not hopeful and I do not expect there will be any meaningful referendum, ever.

More damaging will be the drip, drip, drip of exposures of UKIP's elected councillors misdeeds and mis-sayings. This will be a huge problem for Farage as many of the newly elected seem to have been to the G Bloom school of politics. At the same time the sycophants will be fighting like ferrets in a sack for the top spots on UKIP MEP slates. Marta and Bannerman will also be seeking spots on Tory MEP slates and dishing the dirt on UKIP will go down well with Tory Central Office.

Farage was not the only successful UK party leader on a fags and booze image. In 2005 Charlie Kennedy led the LibDems to their best ever election result, 62 MPs in 2005 and look what happened to him.

Its going to get a whole lot tougher for UKIP. Success brings its problems.

PS Fantastic cartoon on Guido today says it all

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Thursday 2 May 2013

German car rip off. & Andreasen & Bannerman

I regularly read the Honest John car column in Saturday's Telegraph. Its full of good advice and hints. Last week he pointed out how the MOT test was being extended to test lots more things on your motor car like air bags (not clear how that is done), car door lights etc. This has been introduced by the EU at the behest of the EU car manufactures to boost their sales of overpriced spares from which the make much more money than selling new cars or at worst buy a new car. The EU actually only require cars over 4 years old to be tested but as always we have gold plated their requirements by sticking to over 3 years old.

HJ suggested to his reader that he should have complained about this 2 years ago when our parliament nodded this through. HJ is a naive soul, it was decided in Brussels not London. It is going to push up motoring costs for the poorest hard working families as the sordid politicos never tire of saying. But that is what the EU is all about, boosting the profits of German manufacturers. And what did our UKIP MEPs do about this? Zilch!

Andreasen & Bannerman are now seeking Tory MEP slots and want to ingratiate themselves with their new patrons, the Tory power brokers. Hence the all round rubbishing of  Farage by both of them. They are both ungrateful wretches who owe their positions as UK MEPs entirely to Nigel Farage' s patronage. He waived the UKIP rules for Andreasen and vetoed Robin Page standing against Bannerman. All in the past you might say but I beg to differ. Farage attracts and is attracted to people like A&B but will the  Hamiltons be any different? I suggest the good burghers of UKIP consider this point. Who else will be in Farage's favour next May? Some dodgy media 'personality' perhaps.

As it says in the Bible as a dog returns to its vomit so a fool returns to his folly if you are of the Christain persuasion.  Farage is riding high just now feted, wined and dined by the media but as a classicist like BoJo knows after such hubris comes nemesis but it will destroy not just Farage but UKIP as well.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Will Marta the merciless take down nasty Nigel?

I have long held the opinion that Marta was our best chance of getting rid of Nigel. Neither are characters I would wish to associate with. A man is known by the company he keeps and I havealways steered well clear of Marta and Nigel. Then Indy today published a long article based on an interview wih Marta slagging of Nigel. You can read it for yourself by clicking on Independent.

The article says nothing that I have not written over the years. It is headlined thus:


Ex-MEP Marta Andreasen claims Ukip peddles ‘lies’ as high-profile Tory MP Priti Patel's father announces he is standing for election



and subtitled:

Former MEP claims Nigel Farage is to blame for failing to vet candidates with far-right links


Two points. The Indy is no lover of the Tories hence the link to the Tories in the headline. There is an error in the subtitle, Marta is a current MEP albeit she now is a Tory.

Unfortunately the UKIP rank and file read the Daily Mail and the Telegraph not the Indy so unless these two organs pick up the story it is unlikely to get through to those poor UKIP members who have been well and truely conned by Nigel.

Here are a few selected excerpts from the piece.

"The UK Independence Party tells “lies” to stir up fear of immigrants and Nigel Farage is personally to blame for failing to vet candidates with far right links, one of its former leading MEPs has claimed."

Agreed!

She said: “If you saw the campaign in Eastleigh it was all about immigration and they lie, they produce data which is ridiculous, they say the whole population of Bulgaria and Romania is going to come to the UK.”

Agreed as the TV record shows.

'But Ms Andreasen, a former chief accountant for the European Commission, said it was Mr Farage’s jealousy of potential competitors inside the “one-man band” party that had prevented candidates from having their records checked.'

Agreed except I would like to see evidence to support the chief accountant claim.

She said Mr Farage changed the party’s constitution last year “giving him full power on everything, including the establishment of strategy, policies and selection processes for candidates for elections”.

Agreed. I and others wrote at the time this was what the changes/tidying up of the UKIP constitution was all about ie creating a Farage one man party. All I and others got was the usual smears from the UKIP spin machine was the usual lies that we were trying to destroy UKIP.  Absolutely not! I was trying to save UKIP from turning into a dictatorship. 

This February, Andreasen became the third MEP to quit Ukip in two years amid rows about policies, personalities and far-right allegiances.  Were they all wrong about Farage. I think not.

UKIP is now moving onto former BNP imigration ground. Some UKIP candidates have never left this ground.

Farage has described Andreasen as 'impossible' but who brought her into UKIP and waived the rules to get her on to the SE MEP slate. That's right, Nigel Farage! That's Nigel's trouble. He is a poor judge of character and has no idea of strategy. He is only as good as his last sound bite and worse cannot remember the one before.