Why People Don't Like The Police

Note this story in the Mail today:

"Many a miffed driver has received a fine in the post after being photographed breaking the speed limit. But one motorist has taken his dislike of speed cameras to the extreme by attaching a bomb to one in the dead of night and blowing it to pieces.

Police were today hunting the person who blew up a yellow roadside camera, leaving parts strewn across a road in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Residents living along the Bishopstoke Road were woken up by the sound of an explosion in the early hours of Christmas Eve."

Now, the police could have issued a statement just saying they were looking into it etc etc, and not make a massive deal out of it. Instead, we get this Armageddon-laced nonsense:

"This is totally irresponsible behaviour by whoever committed this offence. There could have been a potential risk to passers-by although this was minimised by the time of the incident.

There was a risk to the nearby petrol station and the attack could have had serious consequences."

You hear that, risk to passers-by, serious consequences - some pretty serious stuff, I think you'll agree. Except this particular incident is the epitome of not serious; the very definition of a victimless and, dare I say it, popular criminal act. What annoys people is seeing the police act in this over the top and fear-mongering way because they really, really want to stop people blowing up speed cameras; and then how casual and indifferent they appear to be when your TV gets nicked or an elderly relative gets mugged. In those cases, you get an incident number, a police visit is a rare thing, and you're just supposed to accept you've been bested by some oik in an Tesco tracksuit. What you need to do is point out that the stolen TV is likely being sold to pay for drugs, which funds poppy production in Afghanistan, which then funds terrorists. Then the police might do something about it, though history suggests they'll just arrest more tourists taking photos of bus stops and Starbucks shops...

Why People Don't Like The Police

Of Minarets and Massacres - The Swiss Example

The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The PC and multicultural commissars around Europe recently condemned the Swiss for exercising democracy in banning minarets on mosques.

Good on the Swiss, we say, for allowing the people to have a vote on something they consider important. That's more than we get from from our own provincial government or our unelected masters in Brussels when it comes to immigration - or anything, really.

This article puts the argument into an interesting perspective:

Forgive me if I, too, do not weep that 57.5 percent of the Swiss, now hosts to a largely moderate Muslim population of Turks and former Yugoslavs, want to keep their country a quiet car among nations. I am still busy weeping for the Armenians, the first people in their corner of the world to officially adopt Christianity, almost eliminated from history due to regular massacres by the Muslim Turks among whom they lived for centuries...

The Swiss vote is a signal rather than an endorsement of intolerance. The Swiss, while facing only a sort of creeping, minor Islamicization of their society—requests for girls to be excused from swimming classes, or separate cemeteries of the sort Swiss Jews already have—are aware of the gargantuan intolerance shown by some Muslim societies against minority Christians. While they may not seriously fear such a consequence, many of them plainly want to draw a line in the sand and say: We will not become a Muslim-dominated society, and we will stop that process early.

You can see why the political classes in the UK and Europe don't like democracy: the people don't always vote the way they should.

Of Minarets and Massacres - The Swiss Example

Commitment?

This squalid government, made up of lying, thieving, cockwaffling Fabian scum, continues to sink lower.  Not one word they utter is true.  They smile while lying; it's their own form of Taqqiyah. With the help of a weak Opposition and the LibDems they have destroyed this country's institutions and called it 'progress'.   The country has been changed  beyond recognition in the name of 'modernisation'.  Yes, they have a 'commitment', but it isn't to this country or our country's Armed Forces.  Suddenly, being voted out of office (or as they like to call it, power) at the GE, is too good for them - it's too fair, too 'British'.

Major NATO training exercises cancelled.

In what must rank as one of the most fatuous responses ever, Bill Rammell, AF Minister, said:  “Given our current commitments we must ensure that  activity is focused on preparing our Forces for the challenges they will  face. Any suggestion that Service personnel are not ready to respond to the  unexpected is nonsense, as was seen in the fast and effective response to  the flooding in the North of England last month.” 

It's tough when people are concerned with hanging on to jobs and homes (more businesses have gone to the wall in this recession than did in the 90s) but more of us need to spare a moment to see the bigger picture and the destination.  EuroGendFor is looming.  Does anyone remember the saying:  You can't see the wood for the trees?
Cross-posted

Commitment?

Another Costly Labour Cock-Up

Cost of Government scheme to avoid repossession is £165,000 per household.

The Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme was announced in a big fanfare a year ago to help struggling borrowers stay in their homes, but has ended up helping just 15 families so far.

The Government confirmed today that the scheme has cost the taxpayer £2.5 million.

Clever.

Another Costly Labour Cock-Up

Al Gore's Latest Lie

Al Gore's Latest Lie

Nigel Farage slams EU and carbon tax scam on the Alex Jones Show

5-part autoplay of UKIP's star, Nigel Farage, on Alex Jones show:



Cross-posted

Nigel Farage slams EU and carbon tax scam on the Alex Jones Show

Albion Alliance Progress Report

 We are pleased to  announce the Albion Alliance 2010  Candidate Database, correspondence and response page.

As MP’s and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates are  written to, and responses are received, we will be making available to the  public via our database the details of that correspondence as and when they are  received. In order to view that correspondence, you may enter the searchable  database here, (initially arranged  in constituency order), scroll down or use the search facility to find the  candidate or constituency of your choice, and then scroll across the page to the  correspondence columns. The highlighted link (if there is one) will take you to  all the correspondence sent and received for that candidate.

If you have written to your MP or Parliamentary  Candidate concerning the Albion Alliance pledge, or received a reply from them,  please forward it on to us by email, or as a scanned attachment if it is a hard  copy letter, so that we may include that correspondence into the  database.
But don’t stop there, write another letter, to  another candidate, or get your friends to write as well. The more letters that  are written to Parliamentary Candidates the more pressure that this campaign can  exert.

The Albion Alliance would wish to place on record  their appreciation and thanks to both existing MPs standing for re-election, and  Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, who have already responded to e-mails and  letters.

Parliamentary Protocol:
Please remember that the Albion Alliance campaign is  a National matter, not a Constituency matter. It has come to our attention that  MPs – and some PPCs – have resorted to not responding to letters and e-mails  from members of the public, who live outside their constituency, on the basis  that ‘Parliamentary Protocol’ prohibits an MP from providing an opinion on  matters that do not affect his/her constituency. This ‘defence’ is nothing but  obfuscation on the part of MPs who are standing for re-election, and  Parliamentary Candidates, from passing an opinion on ‘national’ matters. They  need to be reminded that, all too often, they are only too happy to pass comment  on ‘national’ matters in the hope that it provides publicity for them, together  with a ’soundbite’. The Albion Alliance would remind everyone that whilst such a  ‘protocol’ may exist for purely constituency matters, it does not apply for  matters of National interest. The Albion Alliance hope that those writing and  e-mailing candidates will press for a reply on the basic question that is being  asked and in this respect please refer to ‘Draft Letters‘ where a suggested  response has been posted.


Updates:
The Candidate Database has been compiled from  publicly available information and is as complete as we are able at this time to  make it. There are still political parties to declare candidates for many  constituencies, or to make their lists of candidates publicly available, and  these will be added to the database as and when the information becomes  available. 

If you are aware of any omissions or errors, we would  be pleased if you could let us know by using the ‘Report any Data Errors’ button  inside the database.

To Enter the Albion Alliance Database of  Parliamentary Candidates please click here.

Albion Alliance Progress Report

The Great Redcar Stitch-Up

Wow. Looks like this one has got legs and started running, with new articles by Richard North and Christopher Booker.

If you're a bit late to the party, here's a quick resumé:

• Redcar steelworks is mothballed costing 1,700 jobs directly with a further 9,000 indirectly at risk. The official reason is "lack of demand".
• However, the Netherlands is building a new state of the art steelworks using EU money and government money. Meanwhile, Gordon Brown says he can't help Redcar because it "breaks the rules".
  
• And Redcar owners Tata are also building a new plant in India with a capacity of 3 million tons, which happens to be exactly the capacity of Redcar.

That Britain is being screwed over by the Netherlands and India is bad enough, but it gets worse:

• At a meeting Corus boss Kirby Adams blames EU emissions trading rules for the closure
• the BBC are present at the meeting but don't report this
• Redcar owners Tata gain £1.2 billion from carbon credits from closing Redcar and opening new plants in the Netherlands and India
• Tata founded the Tata Energy Research Institute. Its director-general is Dr Rajendra Pachauri. He also happens to be chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So 10,000 people in Britain are losing their livelihoods, an Indian company is gaining £1.2 billion and there isn't even any reduction in CO2.

The British need to wake up and realise that other people in the world don't share their sense of fair play. A new breed of politician is needed that robustly protects the interests of Britain. But could such a person get anywhere in our political system the way it is?

The Great Redcar Stitch-Up

Semper doh

Blood will flow.

One of the 'facts' about which we are assured by those wise rulers who seek to censor our freedom of speech about the darkest aspects of Islam as it is actually practised in much of the world is this: if we should so much as point out that, for example: Islamist Muslims really are taught to despise the rest of humanity; or to indicate that Koran, Sira, and Hadith contain numerous examples of hostile and downright lethal injunctions to Muslims to wage undending warfare on the rest of Mankind with the intent to subjugate us; or that the present violent acts of Islamist Muslims are motivated by those parts of Islam about which we are not to discuss, then brutal, bloody, and unreasoning vengeance will generally break out as mobs of unbelievers; inflamed by our mentioning these truths, seek to punish any and all Muslims, irrespective of their beliefs, morality, motives or general law-abiding behaviour.

Geert Wilders was excluded from Britain in case his discussion of Islamism in the Netherlands should lead to outbreaks of Islamophobic vigilantism in the UK.

Mark Steyn was taken to the kangaroo court of the Ontario Human Rights Commission for articles critical of some aspects of Islam and was witch-hunted and found guilty in advance, whilst being the first ever defendant not to be formally condemned by that insane body and was variously defended by others and maligned by its officials thus: "There was no hearing, no evidence presented and no opportunity to offer a defence — just a pronouncement of wrongdoing." The OHRC defended its right to comment by stating, "Like racial profiling and other types of discrimination, ascribing the behaviour of individuals to a group damages everyone in that group. We have always spoken out on such issues. Maclean’s and its writers are free to express their opinions. The OHRC is mandated to express what it sees as unfair and harmful comment or conduct that may lead to discrimination."

Today's demonstration by the English branch of Stop The Islamification of Europe has attracted similar 'fears' of knuckle-dragging racists as 'anti-fascist' UAF and Islamists misrepresent its members as being. Last time, the anti-Islamification protest was called off by the organizers for fear of harm to the police, but the violence went on anyway, which only left one source of rioting and bigotry.

Now, despite all those dire warnings of massive and vicious persecution of innocent Muslims by individuals inflamed by the very mention of Islam's scriptural cruelties and historical and present oppressiveness, what hasn't happened is wide scale or even small-scale mosque burnings; hangings; or beatings of Muslims in the West (except perhaps by their enraged male relatives) as a result of this talk. Nor as a result of the gloating pronouncements of Islamists about our foreign policy. Nor for harrassment against Western troops. Nor for calling for the murders of Britain's colourful artistic temperament community. Nor for attempted terrorism. Nor for successful terrorism.

There have been some beatings, it seems; but we may never know what motivated that attack, but not the holocaust we're always promised every time someone quotes the murky passages of the Koran or from Islamists' own words and deeds or publish pictures or writing about Islam and Muslims.

Hey guys, are we Islamophobic hatemongers not trying hard enough or what?

You know what?

This is all so insulting. Insulting to the Muslims who find scriptural reasons to question the violent and brutal aspects of Islam and oppose its practices. Insulting to the Muslims who ignore the dark stuff and peacefully get on with their lives regardless of it. Insulting to the rest of us who are quite capable of discriminating between the killer crazies and the Muslims who work in our hospitals and colleges and supermarkets and schools and restaurants and shops and who just want to take whatever comfort and salvation they can from their faith.

The 'Don't mention the Jihad' argument has more holes in it than a, well, you know.

And if talking about it is bad enough, what bloodthirsty massacres will follow the Swiss'vote refusing to allow any more minarets to be built in their country.

Let's just wait here for the claret to rain down over the Alps at the hands of us killer infidels, yeah?

Just sitting here.

Waiting.

Any time now.

It's going to be scary, you betcha.

Cross-posted from my blog.

Semper doh

The Real Reason For The Closure Of Redcar Steelworks?

Biased BBC has an interesting post about the real reason for the closure of Redcar Steelworks with the potential loss of 10,000 jobs. It seems the boss stated that the reason is EU emissions trading rules.

Meanwhile it seems that the Netherlands is the beneficiary.

The British have a history of fair play, of doing things by the rules, which has historically served the country well. But now, in the age of an all encompassing European Union and aggressive religious minorities, is it time that the British started to realise that if you sit back and do nothing, hoping for the best, you just end up getting screwed over?

The Real Reason For The Closure Of Redcar Steelworks?

The Righteous Mendacity of Blair

Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD

Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former prime minister Tony Blair said Saturday.

A correction is needed there; it should read 'even though it was known that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.'

Blair is obviously preparing the ground for his appearance at the enquiry.

No doubt he'll be at pains to preserve the shining righteousness of his conscience as the justification for everything.

Sick bags at the ready, folks.

The Righteous Mendacity of Blair

Midwife Shortages Caused Baby's Death

This is probably the tip of the iceberg, because many more have probably died who never made the news, but it is now official that a shortage of midwives directly contributed to a baby's death.

What the BBC report doesn't mention is that this is a result of Labour's policy of uncontrolled immigration. The idealistic social engineers thought that it would be a good idea to have open borders, not predicting that the first thing that the large number of incoming people would do is start having lots of babies.

I hope they are pleased with themselves now.

Midwife Shortages Caused Baby's Death

"G5" Aiming For Christmas #1 In Charts

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Cross-posted

"G5" Aiming For Christmas #1 In Charts

GLOBAL WARMING LIES EXPOSED!

This video is well worth the ten minutes it will take to watch.

Much is explained and Gore's real goal is clear to see!

GLOBAL WARMING LIES EXPOSED!

Climate Change Zebu

I recently discovered the blog Utter Zebu which has an accompanying book that I just picked up discounted in a closing branch of Borders, both of which take a wry look at all the little ways we are deceived on a daily basis.

Their latest post points to a Telegraph article revealing that the Copenhagen summit will require 1,200 limos and 140 private planes. Many of the limos are having to be driven in from other countries to meet demand. Does this beat John Prescott being appointed professor of climate change at a Chinese university that he has to fly out to for lectures?

(I'm pretty agnostic on the subject myself, but then I can't drive and rarely fly anywhere.)

Climate Change Zebu

Doug Carswell - Referendum Man

I seem to be behind on this, but I have just learned that Douglas Carswell MP, one of the few MP's in Parliament that listens to what people are asking for and then tries to deliver is seeking to bring about a Private Members Bill to the floor of the House of Commons providing the people of the U.K. a referendum on membership of the EU.

Private Members Bills are a tool for MP's who are not on the front benches to introduce legislation, but tend to have a low success rate and little floor time is provided.  There is going to be limited time available in Parliament with the lead up to the General Election as well.  However, with an issue as big as continued membership of the EU and with the right momentum there is a chance that Mr Carswell with enough public and media support could force the issue in Parliament.  We should assume that the Whips will not be in any mood to help Mr Carswell in this cause, so it is down to people to make their voices heard and for the general population to shout out that we do indeed want this Bill to be passed to that we can have our say on EU Membership.  It is time the people of this country are allowed a say on what we do and do not want.

Mr Carswell's piece, where he sets out his intentions is here.

I for one wish Mr Carswell every success, I hope he can succeed and help us get what so many of us have longed for, for a long time.  He will be a very popular man if he can!

Cross-Posted

Doug Carswell - Referendum Man

Herr Balls Toff

Couldn't resist this (courtesy of Not A Sheep):



Please note the arse facing us in the picture is a false one. Ed Balls, however, is the genuine thing.

Herr Balls Toff

REX MURPHY ON CLIMATEGATE - FROM CBC

Those ferocious Greenies certainly can't accuse this guy of being a fanatical "denier" of their New World "religion"!

Unlike this arrogant, slavering, verbally flatulent twat, Bob Ward!

Is it just me, or would anyone else like to give him a good slap?

REX MURPHY ON CLIMATEGATE - FROM CBC

Global warming a useful political tool, says Václav Klaus

Václav Klaus declares global warming to be a useful political device for politicians.



Hat tip: EU Referendum

Cross-posted

Global warming a useful political tool, says Václav Klaus

What Has Europe Done For Us?

The way things are going this could become a regular feature of the blog!  Here are two things the EU is trying to do for us today:

For London:

Cars could be banned from central London on designated days amid fears that Britain might not hit clean air targets.  Boris Johnson says it might be necessary to explore the idea if the country fails to meet European Union limits, which would result in a £300m fine for the Government in the next 18 months. The Local Government Association said the fine would add £15 to the average annual council tax bill.

Nationally:

Under 'clawback' procedures outlawed in England 'forced heirs' can undo property sales up to 30 years earlier if the deceased did not make adequate provision for relatives in their will.  That means the relatives could stake a claim to property which has since been purchased by someone else in Britain.

Experts have warned that British citizens could lose their homes or be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to the foreign relatives of previous owners.

I hope all MPs who nodded through the Lisbon Treaty without understanding it are beginning to realise what they've done to this country and the British people.  Resign you useless b@st@rds.
Cross-posted

What Has Europe Done For Us?

More On Libel Law

Follwing the previous post mentioning libel law Martin Bright points to a good Progress magazine article on the subject. Hopefully a momentum for reform can continue to build up.

Craig Murray, who is very familiar with libel laws, notes how there has been no discussion about Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday.

More On Libel Law

Whither Cameron?

Who said: "We are now being told the British people are not capable of judging this issue – the government knows best; the top people are the only people who can understand it; it is too difficult for the rest. This is the classic argument of every tyranny in history. It begins as a refined intellectual argument, and it moves into a one-man dictatorship; 'We know best'
becomes 'I know best'."

No, it wasn't Carswell, Hannan, Redwood, Cash or other euro-sceptic;  it was said in 1962 by Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Labour Party in a speech to Party Conference though others have echoed his sentiments many times since then.

Gaitskell effectively scuppered McMillan's entry negotiations with his speech but Ted Heath lied to the British people in 1970: “If we can negotiate the right terms, we believe that it would be in the long-term interest of the British people for Britain to join the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country. The opportunities are immense. Economic growth and a higher standard of living would result from having a larger market ... A Conservative Government would not be prepared to recommend to Parliament, nor would Members of Parliament approve, a settlement which was unequal or unfair. In making this judgement, Ministers and Members will listen to the views of their constituents."

When I started this post it was going to be about Article 8A-4 of the Lisbon Treaty and ECJ Ruling 274/99 but then I stumbled across 1971 FCO 30/1048 (I bet you're all breathing a sigh of relief right now) which states: "The transfer of major executive responsibilities to the bureaucratic Commission in Brussels will exacerbate popular feeling of alienation from government. To counter this feeling, strengthened local and regional democratic processes… and effective Community regional economic and social policies will be essential… there would be a major responsibility on HM Government and on all political parties not to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular policies to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community".

We have been systematically lied to, manipulated and betrayed.  Any politician in the current House of Commons must know this so, I ask again, whither Cameron?  He's already said that he wants the UK to be in the EU but not run by it; from what I've read on Euro-lex and other official EU sites, that isn't possible - he must realise that.  The EU is an undemocratic body; the Parliament was added as an afterthought and a sop to democracy.  The unelected Commission makes the laws, the ECJ upholds them and the elected Parliament nods them through, much like our own Parliament in Westminster.  Anyone who still thinks that our Parliament represents us is wrong; they do nothing but channel EU laws and examine their expenses.  They spend less time in session than ever before simply because they have precious little to do.  They are, in effect, overpaid social workers to their constituents in the Regions.

I came across this as well:

FRONTEX has an internal policing mandate and will soon preside over one of the world’s most extensive surveillance systems. This will be achieved through the interlinking of several existing EU databases and police communications systems and the creation of two new overarching surveillance frameworks (EUROSUR and EU entry-exit).

The EU is built on an out-moded concept which is now, to coin a phrase we know well, unfit for purpose.  It cannot last.

Regulation is heaped on Regulation in order to maintain some sort of structural integrity but there are weak points, the most notable one being that it sees people as counters and themselves as Greek Gods, untouchable high above the clouds, pushing little figures to and fro and guiding our lives.

Happy days!

PS: You might like this: NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex:   "In the final analysis, Full Spectrum Dominance offers a new model of policing based not on ‘consent’, as the liberal democratic model holds, but on continual processes of public submission to authority. Perhaps more importantly, as a project, this model implies the end of resistance to this process (complete domination = complete submission). It follows that if freedom is to survive, then this project cannot be allowed to succeed."

Whither Cameron?

ISLAM4UK website down

I am all for spotting interesting coincidences. At the time of writing the extremist ISLAM4UK website is down, yet Google cached it on 1st December. This follows the egging of Sayeeda Warsi on 30th November.

ISLAM4UK were definitely involved because one of their members was interviewed on the Today programme, saying politicians 'dictate to Muslims'. Yes, dear, politicians dictate to everybody. I'm old enough to remember when IRA members were banned from appearing on the Beeb to avoid the 'oxygen of publicity' but it looks like liberty as a whole benefits when these extremists get publicity because, as the interviewer says, they proceed to shoot themselves firmly in the foot with it.

In another development, a mosque has lost its libel case against think tank Policy Exchange. British libel laws are notoriously unfair and urgently need to be reformed to preserve free speech and fair comment. Some groups have learned how to frighten people into silence just by using a threat of libel.

I have tried to write this post carefully because something I wrote elsewhere was apparently "potentially libellous". I did not know that the person I was responding to was a member of a certain religion and nothing I said mentioned that religion yet I was still told that it was libellous and I realised then how British libel laws are being used to frighten people into silence.

ISLAM4UK website down

Al Gore Confronted In Chicago

Al Gore Confronted In Chicago

Stand By Your Pan?

I have a sneaking suspicion this could well be the WORST fire prevention video ever made...in the history of everything!



WTF?

Stand By Your Pan?