BROWN'S EU CREDENTIALS.

As our PM continues to flounder in the face of the economic debacle, he can still find time to tick all the right boxes to keep his European dream alive. We suspect that these are not the aspirations of the majority, this however is not his concern. He sees only his own future and what position he can hold in this totally unacceptable, undemocratic outfit. From reneging on the promised vote on the constitution (Lisbon treaty) to the current situation where he promised British jobs for British workers. The latter should paint him firmly in a corner from which he can't escape. We'll get much bluster and lying, as he can't afford to jeopardise his future. Who else would employ him?


The death throes of this abysmal Government won't make good viewing, no matter how much they are hated. The reason is that it will continue to waste vast amounts of money until the very last moment. To take over from such a situation will not be easy. The Labour party won't waste too much time before blaming the new incumbents, assisting Brussels in creating even more ridiculous laws to raise much more tax. Beware!









WE MUST INSIST ON CONFISCATING HIS PENSION POT.

PROS AND CONS OF GREENNESS.

It is always refreshing to read of a British development that could improve our lives. A research team at Cambridge University has produced a revolutionary type of bulb, LED (light-emitting diodes), this has potentially a life span of a 100,000 hrs. Something tells me somehow that the Government won't be too keen as they will undoubtedly want to tax us heavily for the disposal of the longlife bulbs, due to the mercury content. No doubt the rest of the world will benefit much more quickly, as China could soon be churning them out by the billions.


Another bad omen for the future, fast forward 50 yrs. The author keeps getting visions of rusting, discarded and failed wind turbines scattered across the countryside, with the appearance of large emaciated dandelions, creating a far greater blight on the land than they do at the moment, and that's bad enough.








EAT MORE GREENS'.

GORDON IN BLUNDERLAND.

Following continued public appeal to get off the stage, the Government takes the pantomime into an extended season, with a re-write and various character changes. The former Baron Saviour becomes a more recognisable Baron Hardup, showing that the new kid on the block, a Black Prince to some but to the brighter observer, just another socialist who can throw OPM (other peoples money) away with the worst of them, similar to our lame laird. Keep giving them curtain calls until the very last minute, it's so important that they don't get away with this economic shambles as they will be only too ready to blame others for their incompetence.


It is still, however, a concern that any politician from the current crop is incapable of taking the 'bull by the horns' and getting to grips with a proper plan for the future. There has never been a better opportunity to clear Westminster and make a restart with a much slimmed down version.







REMEMBER MAGNA CARTA.

HAPPINESS IS AN INTEREST RATE @ 5% MINIMUM.

It is incomprehensible that, in the year of our Lord 2009, we can't grasp that the basic function of a bank is to accept and invest deposits of the saver to loan to the borrower. So where did it all go wrong? Since we have now surrendered this function to a Government that guided us to this disaster, where do we go from here apart from the abyss? The obsession with low interest rates is the prime cause of our financial downturn.


Let us look at how the constituent factors of our misfortune transpired. In an overcrowded island that is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, with much of the population seeking a home near a decent school, the opportunity arose on the back of cheap money. Thanks to a Faginesque style of Estate Agencies, who were quickly advising vendors to take the government-given chance to make a pile, the vendors, in the main, were then buying new properties (mostly moving up-market), therefore having to borrow more. All this was becoming part of everyday living, Our house is worth more every week. Well,what a bunch of 'Dummo's' we are. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we included proper history in our backward system of education. All we need to do is study how the Wall Street Crash occurred. Simple, people borrowed to invest. A 'Credit Crunch'.

WE WILL ONLY SURVIVE WITH WEALTHY BANKS: BRING ON THE SAVERS.

"ALL CHANGE"

Well, he's finally arrived at the White House! Which has given a new, albiet pointless impetus to the likes of Brown, to rub shoulders with Barack Obama, giving the impression that he is some kind of novelty. This is patronising at it's worst. Yes! some things will change, they change all the time. What can the new President do? Will he, as did Roosevelt, employ vast numbers on large construction projects? These will have to be self -funding ultimately, no window dressing, as would be Brown's approach, playing to the gallery. We can pretend and throw money at the problem indefinitely. In the final reckoning, however it is the people who make the difference or circumstances. With Roosevelt it was WWII.



On the subect of change, Andrew Alexander, who writes an excellent column in the 'Mail' every Friday, reminds us of a moment from the novel 'The Leopard'. The Prince's nephew enlists in Garibaldi's rebel army to further his conservative beliefs. Explaining, that if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.




WE SHALL SEE, BUT DON'T BE IN A HURRY.

HAVE WE MET BEFORE?

Is the country really at ease with itself over the ever increasing number of abortions, now running in excess of 200,000 per year. Many of the subjects involved are young girls who appear to have abortions in series. It is reported that some teenagers have as many as three before their 18th birthday. So how much is this costing the hard pressed taxpayer GB, since we have already paid through the nose for contraception, school clinics and sex education classes? Presumably the latter is to assist in practising sex correctly. May we please now have research to identify the supporters of this enormous waste of resources, they can provide the funding. Those of us who show concern regarding the terminations for convenience should be given large tax rebates.



The BBC made an attempt to look at this subject in the recent two episode drama ' Hunter'. We can suppose that such situations are possible, as depicted by such an acute story line, kidnapping and taking the lives of their young victims, offsprings of mothers who had previously had an abortion. The story in best Beeb fashion, in the main, took the side of the pro-abortion lobby, showing the police as overworked, in some cases only kept going by alchohol and tobacco. Plus the occasional line suggesting that anyone who is anti -abortion must be demented. The classic example came near the end, when the smoking, drinking female lead informed us that she had aborted three times. Very well, but in real life when it happens the bill should be met by the participants in the conception, or alternatively, a visit to the vet.






SINCE WE WERE ALL ONCE A FOETUS, THIS HAS TO BE MURDER.

THE GREAT GIVEAWAY.

Our man about the world continues to promise more of our mountain of debt to some foreign cause, this time it's Gaza. Perhaps if we start to shower our neighbours with primitive rockets, we could be in receipt of such largess. Brown really is beyond the pale. I'm convinced that he needs to be sectioned. One wonders if he runs his own domestic accounts in the same spirit. Perhaps they are in the safer hands of Mrs. Brown.


The banks, as we have been informed today, are to get endless taxpayer GB funding. Yes, he is correct in saying that we are suffering from banking incompetence, that is however only part of the story. The same suspect, then the Chancellor, kept urging the public to spend, spend, spend. What does he carry on doing? Well, exactly the same. The useless organisation, The Financial Services Authority, which has never been anything else but a barrier between the Bank of England and the banking sector, presumably in best New Labour fashion, continues to enlarge it's useless ranks, ignoring it's presumed brief to keep it's eye on the economic ball. We have mentioned previously that the authors could not have been the only ones that didn't see this melt-down coming. The frightening aspect is, that if you are dozy enough not to see the problem, you get to be Prime Minister.






SO WHO DID VOTE THIS LOT IN?

WHY BOTHER.

With the Government in total disarray, why do the Tories need to resurrect somebody from the past? Particularly one who's pedigree on the contentious issue of the EU is not in unison with many of his colleagues. This will, without doubt, become ammunition for the Government in the run up to the next election. Each and every one in the shadow cabinet should have been able to snipe at such a despicable unelected sleazeball as Lord Meddlesome, as he is a sitting target. Don't you just love the way he poses for the camera, sucking his spectacles, trying in vain to look the intelligent statesman?


The course to follow, and there has never been a better opportunity to damage this forlorn
so-called government, is to give them enough rope with which to hang themselves. Cameron has allowed his party to be sucked in, exactly as Hamas did to Israel. The Conservatives had no need to give my MP a front bench post. He, Kenneth Clarke, could perform far better as a back room adviser. He can't confront his adversary head on in the Commons, so what is the point?






IT'S NOT A GAME!

DIVISION IS A BIG 'DOWNER'.

We keep reading that Cameron could bring back Kenneth Clarke to challenge the undemocratic Lord Meddlesome. Since they both have their snouts in the same European trough, this would turn out to be a distinctly retrograde step. Only people with short memories could be oblivious to the undercurrent of Euro-scepticism that remains in much of the logical thinker, particularly regarding the book-keeping in Brussels. Kenneth Clarke has voted with the Government on over 30 occasions, presumably upon EU issues, without once consulting his constituents, of whom I am one.







THIS IS A JOB FOR DAVID DAVIS.

WE'LL HUFF AND WE'LL PUFF.

Isn't it strange how we let nature pass us by without considering it's significance? We in the UK are coming to the end of a period of high pressure, which has been in control over most of Britain since before Christmas, during which time we have experienced scarcely a breeze. The temperature, however, has for much of the time been sub-zero. A fat lot of good our expensive 'wind turbines' have been at a time when demand was at it highest. We can add to this the fact that, in Lincolnshire, the blades of one of the turbines is so badly damaged that we can safely assume that it is beyond economic repair. Whatever the answer might be, we could be talking hundreds of thousands of pounds for a replacement.









HYPERTHERMIA AT A PREMIUM

CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET.

Although it is easy to agree with Kevin Pietersen regarding the coach of the England/Wales cricket team, the problem arises about who is the more responsible in their respective capacities. If we take the examples of Sir Alf Ramsey or Brian Clough, they would have been quite adamant that their positions were at the pinnacle i.e as bosses. The captain (Pietersen), being their representative on the pitch. KP obviously sees things differently, since he feels that 'Sarah' Vaughan should be available to hold his hand. It can't be that he wants the latter for his batting ability, of which there is a lack, this would be an insult to the other on-form batsmen.



Peter Moores, alternatively, seems to have been picked from nowhere, with very little pedigree. He was however in the post when Pietersen was elevated to the captaincy. Unfortunately, Pietersen's 'previous' always suggested that this impasse would arise.







STAMP IT OUT IMMEDIATELY.

A CURRENCY WITH NOWHERE TO GO.

If you are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Euro, according to Peter Oborne , don't bother. In his synopsis in a recent press article he itemised, in succinct terms, the hidden crises being played out in a number of the member nations. Particularly Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, these are referred to as the 'PIGS', taking the first letter of each countries' name. Italy and Greece now have economies that are so far out of kilter with the Euro, that the latter for example has to pay more for it's borrowing than Germany, using the same currency. How can this be? One either operates with the same currency, getting the same terms or one is out of it. All four of the countries mentioned are desperate to control their own interest rates but can't, the rest of the world, therefore, imposes it's own financial safeguards, charging differently with regard to borrowing. This will ultimately force some member nations to renege in order to cut their losses.



The enforced referendum to be re-run in Ireland later in the year (albeit undemocratic), in keeping with good European practice, should be a test for the clear thinker. The Union's intention is to bounce the Irish, who were impressive with their 'no' vote, into submission. As long as they are aware that the Republic is on the fringes of the 'PIGS'.



DON'T BELIEVE EU RHETORIC ON THE SUBJECT.

ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE UN-HYPED ARTICLES.

We, I am sure, are surprised to learn that this Government has passed so many laws in the last ten years carrying a prison sentence, that they average one every four days, evidently. It really is astounding that a Government which is so reluctant to keep any criminal in gaol, wastes so much time on instituting all this fanciful legislation, eminating from a vast army of unelected officials in Brussels. It is of course to employ people. Firstly in Government, but more importantly, in the world of law practice, where an even larger army of people are beavering away at taxpayer GB's expense.


Perhaps 2009 is the year that people who foot the bill should have a greater say. The author is fearful that the longer the UK accepts sleep -walking to disaster without making democratic moves, the more dangerous the future will be.






COMING SOON: POLITICAL TRICKS AND MANOEUVERING.

A BROWN/MANDELSON PRODUCTION.