Bastard Brown Moral Black Hole Destroying Light

The EU is busy churning out two laws a week, according to an article by Bruno Waterfield:

In the 30 years since the parliament's first elections in 1979, a raft of treaties has given MEPs power to shape 75 per cent of the legislation and regulation that emerges from Brussels.

The parliament has passed 404 laws since the last elections in 2004. Another 233 are in the pipeline, meaning that Euro-MPs are currently churning out two pieces of EU legislation a week.

If the Lisbon Treaty gets past a second Irish referendum this autumn, parliament's powers will expand to cover 90 per cent of EU legislation, including security and justice policies.

Bill Cash reckons there is a way to counteract the increasing domination of the EU and guarantee a Conservative victory:

Trade but no EU laws

Sir, In the aftermath of the European elections, it is important to bear in mind why it is that the United Kingdom Independence Party has done well and, although successful, the Conservative Party has faced this challenge.

The deputy leader of UKIP, Mike Nattrass, MEP, stood against me in the general election in 2005 when UKIP was on virtual parity with its current electoral success.

He lost his deposit. There is a lesson here which is that the Conservative Party is at last united over the Lisbon treaty and a call for a referendum has to go farther — which is to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty whatever the outcome of the Irish vote, and whether or not Lisbon has been ratified by all member states.

My motion to this effect was strongly supported by at least 50 Conservative MPs last year. Furthermore, it is imperative that we endorse my “supremacy of Parliament” amendment, also supported by at least 50 Conservative MPs, that would allow passage of Westminster legislation to override European legislation, and require the judiciary to observe and obey that latest law.

In Visions of Europe (1993) I predicted that the direction of the European ideologues and treaty-makers would lead to the rise of the far Right on the back of economic failure, unemployment, immigration and undemocratic centralisation. We now see the proof in the first national success of the BNP.

We need an association of nation states. We need, as David Cameron has said, “trade and co-operation” with the European Union; we do not want or need European government.

And we need British laws for British judges, which is what I said before UKIP borrowed this from what I stated to Gordon Brown in the House of Commons on November 14, 2007. With these policies the Conservative Party is guaranteed total victory and No 10.

Bill Cash, MP

House of Commons, London SW1

And the Mail highlights the mess caused by Brown's appointment of Glenys Kinnock, to his government of all toe-rags, no one seeming to have bothered with sorting out their formal employment arrangements. Not just another unelected member of the cabinet but another Europhile (like Mandelson). I heard commentators on the BBC the other day talking about her as an 'important figure in British politics', which she isn't. Unless you count being married to Neil Kinnock (again, another unelected position). She's never been an MP and has only ever been an MEP.

PJC details more bastardry by this government: Inspectorates have their teeth pulled.

Brown will have announced his plans for electoral reform today. This man will conjure up anything to keep himself in power. There's not one thing he does or says that isn't consistent with that one aim. The man's a moral black hole, destroying all light around him.

Labour Sell By Federalist Spanking Tax Date

Daniel Hannan on how the continental federalists are warming to the Spawn.

Cranmer draws our attention to government plans to abolish the 'sell by' and 'use by' dates on food. To replace them with another date. Presumably with the consent of their EU masters.

Why Labour got spanked, according to a copper, who should know.

Tax records left unguarded, but no doubt 'lessons will be learned'.

An everyday tale of consumer folk in modern rip-off Britain from An Englishman's Castle.

Ross Brand BBC Distraction Bullshit

God, am I sick to death of the this endlessly regurgitated crap from the media!

What purposes does it fulfil, apart from allowing media wankers to pleasures themelves in public?

1) distraction from the reality of recession and the Mandelson-Osborne-Deripaska scandal

2) fuel for the incoming Tory government to start dismantling the BBC.

And, as a postscript to reveal the utter intellectual vacuousness of our elected representatives, is a post from Devil's Kitchen regarding MP Tom Harris's reaction to receiving a copy of Orwell's 1984.

Mr Harris appears to have been asleep while the government was passing various bits of legislation which increase the intensity and scope of the surveillance we are to be put under (and which we were not told about).

Why The Mirror Is A Shit Newspaper

Because like most British 'news'papers it either ignores or deliberately obscures the truth.

In this case, for instance: Tony Benn writing about post office closures without mentioning the EU elephant in the room (as covered in a previous post of mine); and Gordon Brown being portrayed as a hero 'warning off the moneylenders from repossessing homes'.

Many people are unaware that their homes may be at risk over relatively trivial amounts they owe on loans and cards - and not just if they miss mortgage repayments.

So says the magnanimous Mirror, failing to tell you, of course, that the legislation allowing this to happen (Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007) went through parliament with the full knowledge and support of His Great Prime Ministerness Gordon Brown.

Odd, then, that he is now portrayed as being 'very concerned about financial firms demanding repossession orders to chase credit card debts.'

Under the laughable heading 'Analysis', John Husband in the same excremental journal agrees that the Great Unelected One is right.

What's interesting from a linguistic point of view is the use of the word 'moneylenders': makes it seem as if the perpetrators are a bunch of seedy, greedy, backstreet loan sharks. As opposed to a bunch of seedy, greedy, high street banks and credit card companies, who have just had their wallets filled with our cash for having screwed the world's financial system.

Mandelson Is After Your Internets - Be Afraid

From The Register:

Ministers led by Peter Mandelson are considering a power grab at the independent company at the centre of UK's internet infrastructure, The Register can reveal.

Mandelson's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has asked Nominet, which is in charge of the .co.uk registry, to justify its independence from Whitehall.

There is nothing these bastards don't want to control. The internet is a source of trouble for the politicos because it represents individual freedom (which they don't like). It also allows freedom of expression, freedom of information and provides a platform for ordinary people to find out about and discuss the realities of political life (something not provided by mainstream media). None of which the politicos like.

And it's also a source of revenue.

If the government manages to get away with this (and it will be tantamount to theft) the results will be predictable: an increase in costs, inefficiency on a gargantuan scale, corruption, and, of course, censorship. If they can't price their critics out of the market then they can simply ban them.

Welcome to China-UK.

Whores

Mandelson in Russian clover. He stays at the luxurious Baltschug Kempinski Hotel while his colleagues are put up in The Golden Ring. Surely that's the wrong way round? Enough said.

Blair makes millions since leaving Downing Street. You can't keep an old socialist down.

Campbell is now making it all up. Madness!

Petition Against Compulsory Registering of Mobile Phones

The online petition against this nonsense here.

The Union Jack Banned From Number Plates

(Destroy)

There's been a bit of to and fro among some blogs recently about whether the EU really has banned the use of national flags on licence number plates and, indeed, whether you can be fined for doing so. This written answer from Jim Fitzpatrick below clears it up.

Vehicle Number Plates

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what regulations govern the bearing of representations of (a) the EU flag and (b) the Union flag on motor vehicle licence plates. [225018]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 permit the voluntary display of the GB Euro symbol on number plates. These Regulations would not permit without amendment the Union Flag or other national identifiers.

In other words: you are not allowed to display your own country's flag on your number plate. You can have the EU's symbol, but nothing else.

I'm not a flag-waver myself but the pettiness of this strikes me as beyond credulity. Just think of the mentality of the people who sat down and thought about this long enough to make it law. Then think about the mentality of the buffoons who allowed it to be passed, without comment, into British law. Have they nothing better to do? Was our cash well spent on this piece of legislation?

Links: Bloggers 4 UKIP, Gerald Warner in The Telegraph, The EU Sceptic.

Library Bans Writer and Australians Get Net Censorship

An interesting post over at Areopagitica about Hackney council cancelling a reading in a library by Iain Sinclair because they don't like his views on the forthcoming Olympics.

And, having thought the Australians were smarter than us for demolishing attempts to set up an ID card and database similar to those planned by our own dear leaders, I find they're now intent on censoring internet access automatically.

New Labour is More than just a Pain in the Arse

This morning I received a letter from my dentist telling me my next appointment in October (made months ago after my last check-up) has now been cancelled and moved to May 2009. A six month extra wait will make it a year between check-ups. When I spoke to the receptionist she said it was down to the fact that two of their dentists had left and they had been unable to find replacements.

This cancelling and postponing of appointments has become more frequent over the last four or five years. As has the change in dentists. Twenty years ago, when I moved to Lincoln, I had no problem in registering with a dentist and seeing him or her every six months. Ten years ago I had no problems registering with a new practice after my previous dentist upped sticks and vanished. In the last five years, the situation has deteriorated.

The government would have us believe that they are improving NHS dental services, especially since they introduced new contracts back in 2006. In Lincolnshire things have got worse, because it's big and rural - travel is expensive and public transport almost non-existent. When the new contracts came in dentists left the system in droves. I seem to recall that the then minister in charge (possibly Rosie Winterton - another characterless non-entity from the political classes) claiming it would all be a success, despite the fact that something like 10% of dentists had quit the NHS.

Looking at the newly-released figures from the NHS itself, it appears that despite the fact that 'the number of dentists has increased in every SHA between 2006/07 and 2007/08' and 'that in England, the population per dentist has decreased between 2006/07 and 2007/08 decreasing from 2,518 to 2,439', it is now becoming almost impossible to register with an NHS dentist. Even when you are registered, your troubles still aren't over - you may end up waiting a whole year for an appointment.

It's no wonder that millions of people - adults and children - are not going to a dentist at all. Again, the government's own figures show this decline: 10 million fewer adults saw a dentist in the 24 months up to March 2008 than in the two years leading up to March 2007; and 198,000 fewer children for the same periods. Mind you, the NHS managed to increase its revenue from those patients by £56 million. Pay more, get less is New Labour's strategy.

The system isn't working properly and it's falling apart.

Bloggers Beware Bastards

On Thursday the clones of Brussels discussed the fate of blogs and how they might extend their dictatorial grasp over them. Click here to go to actual document.

Various bloggers have drawn attention to the desire of some in the EU to demand some kind of 'registration' for bloggers - presumably so they (the clones) can keep them in line. See the Bruges Group blog, for example, or Charles Crawford.

Some points to think about from the execrable document itself:

AD. whereas the proliferation of new media (broadband internet, satellite channels, digital terrestrial television, etc.) and the varied forms of media ownership are not sufficient in themselves to guarantee pluralism in terms of media content,

- what on earth do they mean by 'pluralism' in the first place? The media are already 'plural' - just like the word. And who has the right to demand that new media, or any media, for that matter, should 'guarantee' anything to do with content beyond what is already legally required? Content and quality are the business of the people owning and employing the media, not of bureaucrats.

AU. whereas there are a growing number of conflicts concerning freedom of expression,

AV. whereas, in the information society, media education is an essential means of empowering citizens to make an informed and active contribution to democracy,

AW. whereas the increased supply of information (particularly thanks to the internet) is making the interpretation and assessment thereof increasingly important,

AX. whereas the promotion of media literacy among the citizens of the European Union needs much more support,

- please note the presumptuous and authoritarian nature of these words: the idea that the state or the EU are the arbiters in determining how citizens should be 'empowered' to do anything that is basically their private business and that they are expected to make an 'active contribution to democracy'. I don't want to mkae an active contribution, I want to be left alone. Interpretation and assessment of information is the individual's business, not the state's. And who says we, as citizens, need any kind of 'support' from the EU to improve our 'literacy' in new media and making up our own minds about the information it provides?

The rat that you can smell is the rat who pretends to be protecting your freedom whilst actively depriving you of them.

16. Considers that the rules on media concentration should govern not only the ownership and production of media content, but also the (electronic) channels and mechanisms for access to and dissemination of content on the internet, such as search engines.

- consider that - content and means of access. In other words, all of it. And search engines! Is there nothing they don't want to control?

25. Encourages an open discussion on all issues relating to the status of weblogs;

- that's an outright lie.


There's plenty more of this bilge.

The one thing that is certain is that all governments and legislative bodies such as the EU are determined to bring the internet under their control.

Political Party Corpses

Peter Hitchens is right - our political parties are corpses, with no ideological differences between them.

And Flying Rodent is pungently right about the state of US politics.

Now The UN Wants To Destroy Your Internet Privacy

It's not just repressive regimes like China and the EU that want to destroy all anonymity and privacy on the internet. The UN seem to want to get in on the act as well.

'A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous,' according to Declan McCullagh.

McCullagh says 'The potential for eroding Internet users' right to remain anonymous...is...recognized in international law by groups such as the Council of Europe' - which may come as a surprise to those of us within the EU zone, now that we are all under surveillance as a result of Directive 2006/24/EC.

Proposed by the Chinese government - noted for their commitment to free speech and democracy.