Brown's Conjuring Tricks

"Somebody shake me, wake me, when it's over.
Somebody tell me that I'm dreaming and wake me when it's over..."

Another day, another dollar pocketed in the global elite's snooker table of life.  Gordon Brown (*sigh*) has shown he's not one to keep his flaky ideas to himself; here's the latest:  an international satellite monitoring system.  As the article suggests, there are a few countries who might be instinctively opposed to this, not least China.

He's already pledged £800m, that we don't have, to his proposed £10bn fund to alleviate the burden on 3rd world countries between 2010-2012:  "Together the collective power of the Commonwealth must be brought together to tackle a new historic injustice, that of climate change.”

Why can't he just stfu and hie himself off to a nunnery where he can pray for world harmony all day long - he'll love the ankle-skimming garb and face-framing snoods.  That would be a better way for him to live up to his father's principles of wealth redistribution and it  would be cheaper for us as well.  (Dubai, courtesy of RSB, here we come!)

As an aside to all this largesse, I read on another blog (sorry, I didn't bookmark it) that he's also given £275m in aid to another country in the past couple of days whilst Cockermouth with the worst flooding for years has been given only £1m.  I don't suppose Brown understands the old saying: Charity begins at home.  Look at that phrase, it isn't a selfish ideology, what it means is that you have to be strong yourself in order to help others.  If you're fubar'd yourself you're not in a position to help anyone.  UK plc is fubar'd.

A superfluous illustration:  Imagine a truck carrying adults and children breaks down whilst crossing a desert.  There's no communication, no one will look for them, supplies are limited and they have no choice but to set out walking.  It's a long, hard slog.  Who should have first call on the food & water?  Adults or children?  My answer is at the end of the post.

Brown, Blair, the Fabians, Common Purpose & their adherents are 'the greatest historic injustice' this country has ever faced.  I've often called them muppets for their ill-thought out plans and half-baked ideas but really, there's only one muppet here, and that's me.  Something more than blogging must be done and the way things are developing, some thing more than voting will be needed.

* The adults - they'll have the strength to continue walking and will carry the children to safety.  The other way round and they'll all die.

2ozs of Olde English Humbugs to my favourite Grumpy Old Twat for the graphic.

Cross-posted

Brown's Conjuring Tricks

The Theory of Resistance

Locke believes that the relationship between the state and its citizens took the form of a 'contract,' whereby the governed agreed to surrender certain freedoms they enjoyed under the state of nature in exchange for the order and protection provided by a state, exercised according to the rule of law.

However, if the state oversteps its limits and begins to exercise arbitrary power, it forfeits its 'side' of the contract and thus, the contract becomes void; the citizens not only have the right to overthrow the state, but are indeed morally compelled to revolt and replace it.

Locke believes that the citizens are compelled to revolt because absolute power is never a remedy for the state of nature; however, Locke makes great effort to point out that if the citizens are going to revolt they must be on the right side of the issue.

Old Holborn has a good post on The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion - all 198 of them - courtesy of Captain Ranty. This was reproduced from Sessecion Net
- Creating a worldwide Secession Network promoting the Right to Secede - Community-Based Secession - Libertarian/Decentralist Political Processes - Nonviolent Secession and Institutions.

That made me think. The phenomenon of disobedience and resistance deserves academic research.

In the contemporary climate this is based around libertarian blogging, single-issue campaigns such as No2ID, and various individual demonstrations of disenchantment with the State. My own theory is that this is a legitimate reaction to an increasingly illiberal and repressive government and State.

Back in the 1960s and 197os, there was a wider academic tradition of studies surrounding peace, conflict, gender and race, citizen participation and resistance. This was underpinned by the radical agenda of the time and the context of the Vietnam War and acceptance of Marxism as a political theory (Marxism is still cited by historians as a valid theoretical framework...not without reason). Many of our own Leaders admit to a fondness for posters of Che Guevara and a residual admiration for Fidel Castro and Cuba.

Since then, the focus has been on media studies and politics studies. Everyone wants to be something off the West Wing, a spin-doctor or policy wonk, subservient to the System.
Is it time to look afresh at the social theories of citizen participation, peace and conflict, and resistance? In the context of the modern State? The starting point I would suggest is opposition to the Iraq War and the repressive "anti-terror" policies that followed, along with the creeping agenda of the database and surveillance state. The "resistance blogs" and wider campaigns are an evolving phenomenon tied to dissatisfaction with the State and this deserves study.

Any universities out there fancy chasing a research grant? We could even get money from the State to fund this resistance...appears to be the way ahead nowadays!

The Theory of Resistance

Farage In EU Parliament - Another Great Video

I have posted a number of videos from Nigel Farage before, this one will not disappoint. Firstly Mr Farage delivers another soaring speech that is typical of him, but also he reveals (well, I didn't know this..) that Baroness Ashton is not only an awful choice for the post to which she has been appointed (or, is perfect if you wish to flip it on it's head) but she was the Treasurer for the CND in the 1980's when sizable and questionable donations were received.

Keep watching after Mr Farage sits down. The reaction from those in the chamber to a speech that broadly mirrors the opinions of the people of the UK reveals exactly why the UK must leave the EU, for we, and our views are not appreciated nor are they welcomed.

Cross-Posted.

Farage In EU Parliament - Another Great Video

Parliament In Flames

I thought a change of pace might be nice, and as such here is some wonderful British Art from Turner.

Parliament In Flames

Dr Tim Ball Interview On Climategate

Hattip: Anoneumouse

Dr Tim Ball Interview On Climategate

President Rompuy - 0.008% Legitimacy

Hattip: Mary Ellon Synon

As Banned pointed out, the Baroness is 0.0000% legitimate by the same measure.

President Rompuy - 0.008% Legitimacy

Guy News 19-Nov-09

Guido, Emily Nomates and Tory Bear take apart Labours new party political broadcast.

Guy News 19-Nov-09

G20: The truth behind the summit in Scotland

The Corbett Report interviewed Daniel Estulin, who revealed the behind-the-scenes details of the G20 Finance Minister's meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland in early November.

Details were derived from actual G20 documents that his sources sneaked out of the meetings, despite heavy, unprecedented security, "even by Bilderberg standards", according to Estulin. (See BilderbergBook.com).

Estulin says that the main topic of the summit was "the next step in globalisation, which is the creation of the African Union."

This is part of a continuous, long-planned agenda whereby national sovereignty is ceded to unnacountable regional governments which can more easily administer and implement the aims of the financial oligarchs.

One such aim is the elite's exhaustively documented penchant for population reduction, including tying development aid to population control problems. "The creation of the borderless African continent will be spearheaded by the IMF."

One of the smuggled documents shows that an attendee had the IMF articles of agreement at the meeting and highlighted the fact that funds were made available "under adequate safeguards" to member nations. This is code for imposing draconian measures designed to plunge countries into virtual servitude, with the result that in Africa, countries spend five times more revenue on servicing their IMF debts than they do on health care for their own citizens.

The meeting's attendees, identified in the smuggled documents, reads like a who's who of the financial oligarchical elite, including leading Bilderbergers such as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, World Bank President Bob Zoellick, Turkish Finance Minister Ali Babacan and British Finance Minister Alistair Darling and many others. The Trilateral Commission was also represented at the conference by Japanese members Yoshihiko Noda and Masaaki Shirakawa.

In the interview, Estulin discusses the G20's debate on dumping the US dollar which he first revealed would be on the meeting's agenda in a press release in early November. Estulin indicates that while the matter was discussed, it was rejected . "The American and the British delegations tried to persuade the Russian and the Chinese delegates to devalue the dollar and create a basket of currencies or another world currency to take the place of the dollar," he said. "Luckily, both the Russians and the Chinese told the Americans and the British to go pound sand. They were not willing to do this."

The notion that Western financial oligarchs are aiming to dump the US dollar is in keeping with recent reports that Goldman Sachs (whose members are suspiciously well connected to the upper echelons of the US Treasury) actually took up short positions on the housing market - just before the crash. Although a pre-meditated attempt to bring about a financial collapse would appear not to be in the financial oligarch's self-interest, it makes perfect sense when one considers this as a problem-reaction-solution operation - creating a problem in order to get the public to support a pre-determined solution.

Here, the endgame is to use a financial collapse to usher in a New World Order. Now, exactly as predicted, everyone from Kissinger to Soros is using the economic collapse to call for a new financial order of greater international (read: unelected, undemocratic and unaccountable) control over world financial markets.

As the G20 was drawing to a close, talking heads like Damon Vickers began inserting talking points about a new global currency and a "New World Order" onto CNBC. While the dumping of the dollar failed to gain traction at this meeting, this will continue to be pursued by the influential globalist financiers.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made a show of standing up for the people of the planet by noting that "the recent public policy of privatizing profits and socializing losses is unacceptable to taxpayers," to which someone responded "Do you think they have noticed?" The response provoked laughter from the assembled oligarchs.

Mr. Estulin has a message for the G20 oligarchs: "Gentlemen of the G20, in case you're wondering: Yes, we the great unwashed have definitely noticed."



Cross-posted

G20: The truth behind the summit in Scotland

A Video to Touch Us All

I've put this on my own blog but thought it should be shared with a larger audience.

A Video to Touch Us All

Why Did The African Cross The Road?

Because the Labour government gave £1.5 million of taxpayers' money to developing nations to make their roads safer.

This is not a joke.

Why Did The African Cross The Road?

The special relationship............over!!

I wrote this piece here several months ago.

Subrosa wrote this piece here this very morning!!

Looks like the pidgeons are finally coming home to roost.

The special relationship............over!!

The Queen's Speech: Summary

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a kingdom, a nation which is shortly to disappear from maps leaving barely a trace and an echoing squeak. By many it was regarded as a beautiful, romantic land, with castles, palaces, a place of forests & fairy-tales; myths & legends. Words like honour & integrity, work ethic & self-respect were held in deep regard.

Fast forward and, like so many actors in a presentation of 'Ruritania Resurrected', members of the Houses of Commons and Lords donned their finest attitudes and turned out en masse for a walk-on part in today's pageantry. Thumbed-up noses, to the right, quick march.

It really was an unbelievable spectacle, one which I've enjoyed over the years, but this year there was a poignancy and more than a touch of regret. The preening hypocrisy on display was tear-jerking. There was no pride, except in self, no honesty, no integrity.

The Queen read out the government's statement with half-swallowed gulps, sighs and hesitation. Will we ever know if she put up a fight against giving the Royal Assent to Lisbon? It's hard to believe she didn't know what was going on or hasn't been complicit but I really wish she'd been able to simply tear up the speech, spit in their eyes and process back to the Palace, leaving the pompous Brown and his government of the not-so-Righteous in disarray.

The  speech itself was very short in comparison with previous years and the main points were:

'Enhancing' governance of the financial sector
Legislation to halve the budget deficit
Widening the provision of free personal care for those in highest need
Legislation guaranteeing to raise educational standards
'Protecting' communities by making parents take responsibility for their children's behaviour
Amending the communications infrastructure to 'make it fit for the digital age'
Supporting carbon capture and storage and helping 'vulnerable households with energy bills'
Protecting communities from flooding and protecting water supplies
Addressing differences in pay between men and women
Ensuring agency workers are treated equally
Pushing on with constitutional reform
Strengthening the bribery law
Banning cluster bombs

Two draft bills were also announced:

To reform the House of Lords and make it substantially or wholly elected
To make binding the commitment for 0.7% of government spending from 2013 to be on International Development.

To all intent and purposes, it was an enormous waste of money.  Sound & fury signifying nothing - well, not even that really, there is plenty of sound but no fury, no guts in this dying government.  It was a worthless, graceless speech and there is very little chance of any legislation being enacted before the next GE - for which we can give thanks for small mercies.  After all, how scorched does the earth have to be before it's acknowledged as being well and truly scorched?  Or, perhaps, the government is just salting the ground behind them?
Cross-posted from Calling England

The Queen's Speech: Summary

More Questions than Answers

This is not justification for war, yet also I am no pacifist.

Why did Major Hasan do it????



On 5 November, Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people at a military base.

In the US, this event has already become deeply and divisively political.

But why???

Its still not entirely clear what his motives were. Some stress that he was an Islamic religious extremist. Others that he was angered by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and may have been victimised for this faith.

Some broad thoughts:

Militant religious extremism regardsless of the religion and I am not pointing fingers directly at Islam, can find a grievance if it wants one.

If its not Iraq, or Afghanistan, its East Timor, or Chechnya, or Palestine, or the Sudan, or forced marriage, or circumcision, or divorce, or headscarves, or heresy, or apostasy, etc.

But wars can very powerfully energise ideologies.
Clearly, radicals can be motivated even if we are not ‘over there’ en masse.
Yet that doesn’t mean the current wars are irrelevant. It seems highly unlikely that being at war is irrelevant to the momentum and will of people who kill for ideology..

Does that in itself mean that we shouldn’t fight these wars? I have always been uneasy with this line of argument. By definition, being at war does invite hostility on oneself. Australia could have forestalled Al Qaeda’s anger by not supporting East Timorese independence. We in Britain could have prevented the carnage of the Blitz by reaching a diplomatic settlement with Hitler, but that doesn’t mean it should have or that it would have been wise or prudent.

What however we should not do though is fight a war based on lies and mistruths.
And sadly that is an issue we face today.

If armed force is one necessary way to disrupt and weaken the capability of highly seasoned and expert killers who are at large ‘over there’, then it isn’t necessarily wrong to wage war, even if one cost is that it fires up radicals at home.

The question being was Afghanistan really a harbour for terrorism to spread to the West, to our soil.
This we will never actually full know but I feel Pakistan dos have several questions itself that need answered.

The overwhelming majority of attempted terrorist attacks on home soil fail or are prevented. Would it be better not to fight abroad, leaving domestic radicals less angered, but the most hardened terrorists far more free to operate? There are difficult tradeoffs here.

Whatever one thinks about that problem, it still seems clear that expeditionary wars do bring this cost attached, and that this must be factored into our decisionmaking. As a matter of causation, war does often radicalise, and not being at war in these countries would probably have made Major Nidal Malik Hasan less likely to carry out this killing. Not impossible, but less likely.

This isn’t about our intentions. I agree that the US and its allies do want to leave behind a stable, democratic and prosperous society in Iraq and Afghanistan, that this isn’t intended to be some kind of bloody-minded assault on Islam. The reasons for this may well be economic for the West, but a reason non the less.

A glance at the history books shows that the UK and America has very often fought on the side of Muslim populations against their enemies, and a country that was determined to annihilate Islam would not go to the trouble of extensive humanitarian effort, from earthquakes in Pakistan to tsunami relief to billions in aid to Egypt, nor would it take in so many Muslim immigrants, many of whom have made proud lives.

And yet it is easy for radical clerics and propagandists to portray the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as unjust attacks on Islam. There is so much footage to be manipulated, so much unintended killing of civilians, so many images of foreigners patrolling foreign soil. Whether we like it or not, this is a propaganda dream.

Back to Major Hasan......

Does this mean there is a domestic insurgency underway in the United States?

People will disagree on definitions. But one horrific shooting spree does not make an organised, sustained armed uprising. I base this not only on the assumption that concepts like ‘insurgency’ should be delimited to have coherent meaning. Its also on the assumption that the vast majority of Muslims are strongly against blowing people up. So before we rush to the excited conclusion that this is evidence of a domestic revolt, lets beware of characterising a mass of ordinary, unremarkable, human beings in our midst as potential fifth columnists.

The real difficulty with this case is that it has so quickly been wrapped up in the toxic politics of the ‘culture wars’, the ongoing and bitter struggle over the nature of American society, and the origins of violence within and against it. The simple question, ‘why did he/ they do it’ is now so ideologically loaded, that it is hard to tackle in a cold and analytical way.

I dont think we will ever know.
But the propogandists will continue to feed.

Cross posted from my own thoughts.

More Questions than Answers

Tax Payers Alliance New Cinema Advert

Check out this new advert from the Tax Payers Alliance which is going to target cinema audiences.




Hattip: The Big Blue Bear

Tax Payers Alliance New Cinema Advert

From The Resistance This Week

North Northwester delivers a taste of paradise.

Goodnight Vienna asks, who's the daddy?

Subrosa says Dundee has cancelled Christmas.

John Ward says that there may be yet another Labour coup in the offing.

Techno Mystic thinks that the notion of media impartiality is a myth.

The Barking Spider questions whether David Cameron really wants to win the election.

Jess The Dog and being screwed twice.

Fausty bring the news on the birth of the Albion Alliance.

Ollie Cromwell says that Labour has ceased to be a political force.

Viva la resistance!

From The Resistance This Week

Only Fools & Horses...

Here's my contribution to Iain Dale's little bit of fluff...

Only Fools & Horses...

Welcoming Subrosa

We're very proud to announce that Subrosa has joined Voice of the Resistance. Please join me in welcoming Subrosa to the Resistance.

Welcoming Subrosa

By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them

The idea of the Government handing out bonuses to public sector workers at a time when private sector workers are facing wage freezes, bonus cuts, shorter working hours etc is bad enough, but for the Government to be handing out bonuses to MOD staff at a time when many brave and selfless British troops are fighting and dying to prop up a corrupt regime in a foreign land we have no business being in is nothing less odious.

For Alan Johnson to come out and say that the pen-pushers in Whitehall deserve these bonuses because they're 'on the front line' is an incredible statement that shows where this Government's priorities lie. For the briefest of nano-seconds I actually felt some pity for Gordon Brown after the Sun's attack on him, but that's gone now.

For God's sake, what on Earth has happened to this country that this Labour government places more worth on civil servants than it does on the soldiers who it sends to war? Only yesterday Peter Mandelson tried to defend Gordon Brown against the Sun's attack by saying the newspaper was portraying the Government as the enemy, not the Taliban. Well this hideous distortion puts Mandelson's weasel-words fairly and squarely into perspective.

We don't need change in this country, we need a f***ing revolution!

By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them

EU Wide ID Card Scheme Ready To Roll

The EU wide ID card scheme provisioned for in the Lisbon Treaty is coming soon.  Pilot schemes are ready to be launched in 2010.

One of the project leaders, Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez has been quoted:

“The main objective now is to test the model in real time with real people. Usability is critical to the success of the framework, so during the pilots we are expecting to refine and improve elements where necessary. Although it was a key factor in the conceptual design, scalability is also a challenge to be addressed in any future extensions of the project.”

So, seeing as the Conservatives opposed the UK scheme before Alan Johnson scrapped it about 20 minutes ago I wonder what both parties reactions will be.  The article does not specify where the 5 trials will be, but seeing as the UK spent a prince's ransom already what is the betting that the UK in whole or in part will be included in the test?

Just when thing feel like they could not possibly get worse; it just does.

Hat tip: Ian Parker-Joseph

EU Wide ID Card Scheme Ready To Roll

The Albion Alliance: Cross-party independence alliance

The Albion Alliance was launched today, to bring together people from all parties who want a referendum on the EU.

Ian Parker-Joseph explains why we need the alliance:

Numerous opinion polls tell us that 70% of the voting public want a referendum on the EU.

Over the past 40 years Britain has been led, against the wishes of its people, into a political union by a discredited political elite without so much as a single vote on the issue from the public. The last time the public were consulted, in 1975, it was for a simple trading partnership called the EEC. No-one has agreed to a political union where the law of this land will be made by unelected officials in a far off land.

We believe that the forthcoming General Election should be the catalyst that forces that referendum. A referendum that simply asks the public:

“Should the United Kingdom remain in a political union with the other member states of the EU. Yes or No?”

In order to force this issue to the top of the agenda, not in another 5 years, but as a priority for any incoming government, we will be asking every PPC to unreservedly commit to putting the country before party by signing up to the principles laid out in this Albion Alliance.

We are not asking any PPC to abandon his or her own party, nor to set up a party in opposition, but to simply put the people whose votes they are asking for, and their country, before all else, irrespective of the Party Whip.

When they become a signatory to the Albion Alliance, they are pledging to force this referendum, they will be asked to carry the Albion Alliance logo on their campaign website and literature, so that you the voter will know that if you vote for this candidate, they have pledged to granting the public that all important voice on the future of these Islands, a United Kingdom, a land once known as Albion.

The public will then know when they are making that all important decision on who to vote for, a vote for a PPC who is pledged to the Albion Alliance means a candidate who is committed to a referendum, where we hope to find a majority of A.A. MP’s across all political parties once the election is over. Such an alliance would also consider policies that are likewise mutually compatable and can be agreed with the members.

I have already made that pledge, and I urge you to write to your current MP, and then to all the PPC’s intending to stand for election in your constituency urging them to make the pledge to the A.A., The Albion Alliance.

Thank you.
Ian Parker-Joseph
Leader, Libertarian Party UK & PPC Torfaen

Join the Albion Alliance.

Cross-posted

The Albion Alliance: Cross-party independence alliance

You Sure Mr Cameron?

I see the Evening Standard are reporting that David Cameron has announced he is to use taxpayers' money to fund charities to take on the task of beating 'welfare failure'. Unusual. Are we really expected to believe that charities whose whole raison d'etre is the provision of services to the poor are best placed to take on the task of effectively putting themselves out of business (because that's what they are - businesses)? And is Cameron really saying that outsourcing our benefits system to more unelected and unaccountable bodies with a nice big handout of taxpayers' money is really the way forward?

Also interesting is the proposal to appoint charity boss Debbie Scott, who runs the Tomorrow's People charity, as a Tory peer. Especially when you view the following.

Time for Change? Or Time for More Of The Same Old Same Old?

You Sure Mr Cameron?

State Dependency

Who is most dependent upon State handouts?

Actually, it's the Labour Government!

In fact, this is not exactly news to those of us on the inside of UK politics, as one of my former ward colleagues never tires of reminding me: Labour are always dependent upon keeping poor people "poor" and in their back pockets through welfare dependency. That's largely how their MPs are voted into office.

I am grateful to our local Quiet Man from around these parts, for pointing me in the direction of one source or contemporary information that shows this. Unfortunately both that source and the linked/quoted section are non "family friendly", so I shan't link to them (because of my aim that this site should be usable as a resource by all ages) but instead will quote some statistics and reproduce a chart. In fact, the source is the Mail Online, so I can link to that in case anyone reading this wishes to check.

The main statistic is that, of the top 200 parliamentary constituencies in terms of benefits dependancy, 189 of them have a Labour MP, including Gordon Brown and a dozen of his Cabinet colleagues. This chart extract (I have the whole table on file, for reference purposes) shows the top five, of which four have a Labour MP and the fifth SNP…

Again, there is no surprise news here to those of us in the know; but I wonder how many of the public-at-large realise that the situation has been deliberately manufactured, nurtured and fine-tuned to maintain Labour's hold over those 189 (and probably more) areas? I notice that far Lefty Eric Heffer's old constituency of Liverpool Walton is in the Number One spot in the league table, by the way.

For Labour, there is no incentive to tackle this sub-culture, only headline-garnering token initiatives that the history of the last twelve years shows beyond doubt have had zero impact. Instead the situation has worsened — all so that Labour can in effect blackmail millions of people to vote for them, or at the least not vote for anyone else. it costs us all, between us, a sixth of a trillion Pounds every year, and this bill is set to rise still further.

If this amount were to be just halved, we could solve most if not all of the country's public spending woes. In a sense, this could be said to be the single biggest barrier to our nation's economic recovery.

Now there's a thought!

State Dependency

Immigration's Smoking Gun

That's how The Sunday Times describes the latest immigration revelations — via enforced disclosure of documents that Labour ministers had kept out of the public eye until the Information Commissioner compelled the Home Office to release them into the public domain.

It's a long article, covering three medium-length pages, but it couldn't have been shortened by much (there is little repetition and excessive wording) and makes for very powerful reading. Although it doesn't exactly match the recent Neather revelations, there is a lot in common in terms of how the subject of immigration has been handled under Labour, even if motivation isn't stated to be the same.

Essentially, from the article, there was — as always in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate — a large backlog of applications waiting to be decided. Although the junior minister at the time initially said that fast-tracking this without making the usual checks "flew in the face of common sense", the same minister (Beverley Hughes) did shortly after agree and indeed insist on quickly clearing the backlog. This goes back a good ten years.

There is plenty of other interesting material in the article, but skipping right to the end reminds us of the undoubted motivation behind this policy: the large-scale dependency upon immigrant (especially Asian) votes in Labour-held constituencies.

As "up to 80% of ethnic minorities vote Labour", according to the article (and this is also well known by British political parties, by the way), Labour have a vested interest in promoting immigration to ensure favourable voting demographics. The story-I-cannot-tell that I have mentioned before, concerning a Labour immigration minister's activities at one of our immigration offices on the Indian sub-continent fits into the same category, by the way — and that's probably all I can safely say about that(!)

To quote from the last two paragraphs of the Sunday Timnes article, for clarity on what this means:

"There is the added difficulty that at least 20 Labour seats, including Jack (Straw’s), depend on Asian votes”.

With up to 80% of ethnic minorities voting Labour, it is obvious that the more immigrants who get the right to vote, the greater is Labour’s electoral share."

By now, regular readers will be well aware that I have long known that just about everything that Labour does is first and foremost in pursuance of their self-interest — either personally or for the party, generally both. All political parties are capable of this, and most if not all are guilty of the occasional, generally minor, instance of gerrymandering or otherwise tailoring policies to suit themselves. I suppose it is human nature, and the fear of loss of office to "them" in another party is a strong motivator to make those small tweaks as the lesser evil. Perhaps they're even right sometimes…

However, all of that pales almost into insignificance beside what Labour do. At least more and more of this is now coming out into the public arena, and a greater number of the voting public are waking up to the truth.

I've mentioned before how slow and hard-going it is to get people to realise that there really is a huge gulf between (essentially) how the Left and the Right behave and their attitudes. Neither is anywhere near perfect but their motivations are hugely different, even if both have to exist in the same world so sometimes they appear to be closer than they are in reality, as they have to face the same issues.

These documents do not seem to back-up the Neather claim about "rubbing the Right's nose in it", but the manipulation of "ethnic demographics" (to coin a term) to keep at least twenty Labour MPs including Jack Straw in their seats does come out of this quite clearly. That's the Labour way, so obvious from how Gordon Brown acts and reacts: the country doesn't matter, but the State (i.e. "us") is all — as in that German Nazi-era expression that I have read.

Of course, now the damage has been done, there is little that can be put in place to solve the resultant problems. All any incoming government will be able to do is to stem the tide: those already here are a fact, and are largely innocent pawns in Labour's political game.

We can cope with that, provided we don't give up our indigenous culture and laws to those from elsewhere. That way, Britain can survive — nowhere near as well as it would have been without this mass immigration over the past decade or so, but we can make it work, now we all know what was behind it all and realise who the biggest enemy of Britain is — Labour!

(Cross-posted from my own 'blog)

For a slightly different take on this subject, do read The Orange Party's piece.

Immigration's Smoking Gun

Pictures From Westminster

These are not the best pictures you will see of the day, but none the less here's what I took.

A good day was had by all.  To the surprise of some there, we were as a group allowed up into the public gallery, though not before it was checked with Parliamentary security what the rules were for entering with masks on... eventually we were waived through into the airport style scanners, were photographed and then queued up where you have to provide your name and address on an official looking form whereby you promise not to disrupt proceedings from the gallery.  All masks and costumes had to be removed.  Truth is,  after only a few minutes of listening to a climate change debate was needed for Old Holborn and the rest of us to fancy heading back to the pub; so we left.

My attendance on the day was in part because I dislike our government and what they are doing, and I am angry with what is going on in Parliament.  I do not feel represented, and I like to get up to Parliament a few times a year to join in with various protests and marches.  Old Holborn would probably point out that this was not a protest, and that would be true, which was my second reasoning.  I wanted to see if a group of individuals who are openly critical of Government could still access Parliament and get in slapping range of our elected and unelected politicians.  With laws being passed that will not allow for unapproved protesting around Parliament, and that prevent people from taking photographs in the street all in the name of protecting us from terrorism, but really enabling MP's and the state to be more and more removed from people; my fear was that a group of people with dissenting opinions may be stonewalled under anti-terrorism laws.  In the grandest traditions of British protest and eccentricity, the land where a person will roll a penny for miles to raise money for charity, walk the marathon in a submariners suit and where magicians will live in a perspex box over the river for a few months, what level of fear, if any would a group of people in plastic masks attempting to watch our government function first hand generate?

From the pub where I met the group who had already been to Downing Street it would seem we were under what I assume was police surveillance. We walked from the Westminster Arms to St Stephens Gate at the front of Parliament.  I found out later that on the way there some of the costumed attendees had met with remarks in the street from people who assumed, well, I am not sure what they assumed, but they felt free enough to let off some disparaging remarks.    At Parliament the main players were denied access initially in their costumes but eventually, when security was satisfied (and after Tory Bear had conducted an Interview for Guy News) we were ushered in and very subtly broken into smaller groups.  Firstly by allowing only a few through the initial security barriers, then by making us queue before heading up to the gallery.  During this time additional groups, including school children were allowed through so as to separate us out.  They needn't have worried, everyone I spoke with was polite and in no way hostile; and quite possibly there out out the same kind of curiosity as I.  It is also worth mentioning that the Police, and uniformed "Police Staff" were again as with my previous visits exceptionally polite, and as with before they seem to enjoy seeing people turn up who will give politicians something to think about.  From previous visits and this one it is clear that the resentment the public feels leads right up to Parliament and is felt by those who protect the fantastic building and those who work there.

On the way out from the gallery, Old Holborn and some others were sidelined by security, though I did not get to hear why.  I was told third-hand that they wanted to know why we were all there, and identified him as the group leader.  Given the reaction from other staff, this may well have been from genuine curiosity and support, though my guess is that OH would have not given them any more info than he wanted to.

And that was that, which lead then to my third and in truth the biggest motivator for going and that was a chance to go have a drink with some fellow bloggers which is always good fun.  Before heading home, The Boiling Frog and I nipped back to the St Stephens Tavern for a quick pint of Badger Beer which has been living in the memory since the May jolly organised by Steve Green.

So it was a good day and a good experience.  Having had a read around everyone seems to have attended and taken away something different from the day.  They do this kind of thing more justice than I do in their writings, so here are a few recommended links to get some different perspectives (and some much better pictures).

Old Holborn - Hogwarts

Anonymong - Thoughts on a second walk

Snowolf - The one that had a good time...

Billy Blofeld - Old Holborns walk

Dick Puddlecote - Stroll On

Guthrum - In the words of Max Boyce - I was there

And this from Dungeekin, who did not make it but it sounds like he will do next year.

This post has been cross-posted from my blog.

Pictures From Westminster

Ex-Finnish Health Minister admits swine flu is a hoax

The ex-health MinisterChief Medical Officer of Finland, Dr Rauni Kilde, admits that swine flu is a hoax designed to kill off as much of the population as possible, while making billions for Big Pharma.

She says that the scheme was derived by the Bilderberg group (14th/15th May 2009), the idea originating from Henry Kissinger. A near split occurred at the meeting.

What stance do you think Britain's 'representative' to that Bilderberg meeting might've taken? What are their incentives?

Are there any high-powered lawyers in the house who will hunt these criminals down and try them for attempted mass murder and treason?



Are you still going to take that swine flu shot?

Cross-posted

Ex-Finnish Health Minister admits swine flu is a hoax

Playing To Win

If you're not aware of the Anti-Terrorist, then I strongly recommend you make his/her/its acquaintance at your earliest opportunity.

Here are their latest videos;

Playing To Win Pt.1



Playing To Win Pt.2

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Playing To Win

Another Sad Day for Wootton Bassett

Today will be an even sadder day for the Wootton Bassett and the people who care about our troops.
(Note the subtle hint that i do not include the Labour Party in that statement).



Today a C17 will repatriate the body of the above photgraphed gent.
This is Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid.

Much has been written about "Oz", but I urge many to read Michael Yons online magazine.
His passing of the most technically demanding course in the army.
His courage his skill.

And whilst the loss of any service man is a loss too much the passing of this gent who lost his life dealing with his 65th IED on his last day of his tour strikes a cord like no other.

Is it time to get them all home?
Is it winable?
Is it providing security here in the UK?

IS IT ACTUALLY WORTH IT??????

Another Sad Day for Wootton Bassett

++Daniel Hannan - Returning To Back Benches++

I should not be shocked, but I still was.

Daniel's latest post.

++Daniel Hannan - Returning To Back Benches++

Remember, Remember...

A quick message to plug Old Holborn's walk tomorrow;

I will be walking at 12 Noon on Thursday November 5th from Trafalgar Square to Parliament. All are free to join me as I courteously hand a Carson Rose into Downing Street and then gain access to the Public Gallery of the House of Commons, where we can watch our paid representatives engage in lively debate about how to tax us, fleece us and subjugate us to their whims.

I shall be dressed in my usual attire, please feel free to dress however you wish but special invites go out to anyone who wishes to wear a pig costume for the day. It would give me great pleasure to herd a few noisy pigs and Guy Fawkes's into the Public Gallery to face their MPs.

VOTR sends our regards. If anyone from the Resistance is joining OH, please let us know how it goes.

Remember, Remember...

Mobilising The Resistance

Just a quick note to say you can now follow the Resistance on your mobile by entering http://thevotr.mofuse.mobi as the URL on your device.

Mobilising The Resistance

Farewell to Freedom

Cross-posted from my own 'blog…

A very good post by The Devil in his Kitchen yesterday is, as Brian Micklethwait at Samizdata puts it, "a must-read" — and so it is. Especially for Libertarian readers here, I do recommend it regarding some truly frightening consequences of New Labour's corruption of the parliamentary law-making system in this country.

Oh, and unusually for Devil's Kitchen, the language is entirely family-friendly too!

What he is discussing are what he correctly terms Enabling Laws, that instead of being specific laws are effectively open-ended licences for a Government Minister to introduce, without passing it through Parliament. If one thinks about this, this is the closest move to total control by the Executive that we have yet seen. The fact that — as the Devil himself tells us — Labour have introduced "a large number" of such laws demonstrates beyond any remain doubt that it was Labour's intention all along to turn Britain into a totalitarian State.

Oh, they and their mouthpieces will have all the excuses as to why it was "necessary", "desirable" or "more efficient use of parliamentary time" or suchlike; but it doesn't wash as a moment's thought will reveal. Besides anything else, it completely undermines the democratic processes of this country and is treacherous in the least case, and seems almost certain to be intended to enable future (imminent?) actions that would probably be classed by most people as treasonous.

We already know that Labour's Civil Contingencies Act is intended to allow suspension of elections and parliament indefinitely, and we are aware of the moves already being put in place to deal with any public uprisings. I have covered some of these before, such as identifying soldiers who would be prepared to open fire upon British citizens. The wider distribution of tasers within the police that was recently rvealed is part of the same preparations.

Labour are still trying to avoid holding a General Election and staying in office until they have absolute power over us — their goal all along, right back to before they were first elected in 1997. It was always part of the plan, it seems.

I suspect that the timing of Tony Blair's departure from Downing Street (and his staying outside our country for so much of the time since) was in fact dictated by how and when certain mileposts had been reached along this path, ready fro Gordon Brown's "clunking fist" (see, we were warned in advance, in a way) could take over for all the heavy-duty stuff. Blair silkily got all the laws and powers in place, then handed over to his nastier henchman to do the really dirty work.

That's where we are now; and there might be very little we can do about it, especially if the EU has put together a way to use their armed forces and other militia to help quell any uprisings and the inevitable riots that would result. Oh yes: that is undoubtedly one of the reasons for creating suh a large pan-European force upon whih to be able to call. The jigsaw puzzle is now almost complete, and surely everyone can now see what the final picture is going to be.

The Devil has competition for the worst place to be thereafter — his Hell or our Britain.

Farewell to Freedom

It All Comes Down To One Man

Amazing, isn't it? With the news that the Czech Constitutional Court will not strike down the Lisbon Treaty, the future of Europe now comes down to just one man. Only Vaclav Klaus stands in the way of full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and even he has previously indicated he would not stand in it's way should the Czech judges find in favour of allowing the Lisbon Treaty to stand.

So what are we to do? With Cameron set to announce he will not give the British people a referendum on a post-ratified treaty, we really are staring into the abyss. As a Conservative party member, I really have to say how disappointed I am with this announcement from my party's hierarchy, but not really surprised. As anyone who has researched the Lisbon Treaty will tell you, the effect of a no result in a referendum after the Lisbon Treaty has come into force would be a legal minefield that would consume the best part of at least the first term of an incoming Conservative government, and that is in nobody's interest.

The European question must be addressed, but I don't think it should be the main priority of any incoming Conservative administration. I know many of my fellow resistance members will not agree with me on this, and I imagine a fair few of you will be foaming at the mouth reading this. But I really don't see what more can be gained from continuing to pretend a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty will result in anything other than the Conservatives ending up as a one-term government, allowing Labour back in at the first attempt.

No, it's time to move on. Our priority now should be healing the seeping wounds Labour have left in our economy and our society. Europe must be addressed, but I see no reason for the Conservatives to pursue this any further at this time. Europe tore our party apart once before, allowing Labour to fill the vacuum and inflict 12 years of hurt on our country as a result. It's time for the Eurosceptics (and I count myself amongst them) to realise that allowing the Lisbon Treaty to dominate the agenda will only result in one thing at the next election - another five years of Labour. Now is that what you want? UKIP if you want to, I'm still voting blue.

UPDATE - Cameron has responded thus;

It All Comes Down To One Man