Extra MEP for the West Midlands

The Tories will have a new MEP in the West Midlands from next week thanks to Belgium ratifying the protocol attached to the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that creates an extra MEP for the UK.

Anthea McIntyre will fit in well with the other Tories in Brussels as she is committed to continuing membership of the EU and faithfully repeats the mythical "repatriation of powers" party line as a sop to eurosceptics that are daft enough to think that power can ever be repatriated from the EU.

Still, every cloud has a silver lining - if the EU survives long enough for another EU election, it's another seat for us to take off the Conservative & _٨^European Unionist Party!

Grayling: Saving the €uro is more important than saving us from the EU

Earlier this month Camoron went to Germany and agreed to wave through Angela Merkel's Fourth Reich enabling treaty without the required referendum in exchange for her thinking about letting us continue to opt out of bits of the Working Time Directive.

Dear Dave, this is not the
time to fold

She's obviously had a think and decided the answer is no because the plan to exact "reform" of the WTD in exchange for creating a new Greater German Empire has been dropped.

Chris Grayling MP said that doomed attempts to save the €uro are more important than matters of national interest and sovereignty so they would let the EU get on with whatever it wants to do and hope that non-€urozone members don't lose out in the process.

So basically, the British government has the strongest hand it could possibly have and instead of capitalising on that and wringing a string of concessions out of the EU in exchange for illegally depriving us of a referendum on the Fourth Reich enabling treaty, they've folded!

FSA warns banks to prepare for €urozone collapse

The head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has apparently privately warned UK banks to prepare for the imminent break up of the €urozone.

Warning: Image links to the Guardian

Our glorious leaders (both at home and on the continent) are trying to scare us into thinking that the collapse of the €uro and/or the EU would destroy our economy but they aren't being entirely truthful.  It would be ridiculous to suggest that our economy would be unaffected by the collapse of the €uro but our banks aren't massively exposed to €urozone bonds and the UK taxpayer isn't massively exposed either.

The amount of money the taxpayer and the banks have invested in the €urozone certainly isn't trivial but it's not fatal.  It is important that we distance ourselves from the €urozone and the EU to avoid getting dragged down in the €uro's collapse.

We aren't so tightly integrated economically as most of the EU, we need to emphasise our distance from the reckless economic policies being dreamed up by clueless imbeciles to try and save the terminally ill single currency (or "the euro-vantity project" as Nigel Farage calls it!).

The EU's Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn, has already said that EU leaders have 10 days to save the currency.  For the sake of the 317m people afflicted with this mickey mouse currency and the untold damage it's done to their national economies, I hope he's right.  Once the €uro has collapsed we will see interest rates dropping and national currencies reintroduced way below the €uro's artificially strong present value.  The question people in countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal will be asking then is if that is what was needed to get them out of the mire that €urozone membership has got them into, why didn't their leaders do it sooner?

Woman arrested for racial abuse on London tram

A woman who has appeared on a YouTube video racially abusing passengers on a tram in London has been arrested.

The video has apparently had over 1m hits (although the version I found has only had 46k) after being mentioned on BBC Breakfast and has led to police finding her and arresting her.  While she is abusing passengers about not being English or British she is holding a young child which is hardly the best example of responsible parenting.

The views the woman has are undoubtedly shared by a lot of people but screaming them at people - any people - on a tram littered with foul language in front of your own child and other peoples' children is not appropriate.

I am assuming that someone on the tram made a complaint (and rightly so) but I wonder if the person who uploaded the video to YouTube rather than send it to the police is going to be punished for distributing offensive material?  After all, if it wasn't for the video being posted on the internet, no more than 30 people would have heard what was said rather than the million that have been exposed to it now.

Offending someone with your opinion shouldn't be illegal, aggressively shouting those views in an abusive manner at someone should be.

BNP Butler joined BNP Barnbrook in the English Democrats

Eddy Butler, the former National Front, former BNP, former Freedom Party, former BNP a couple more times, former BNP national elections co-ordinator, has joined the English Democrats.

The announcement, which was the EDP's worst kept secret since his mate Richard Barnbrook joined in January, will be a bitter blow to the handful of party activists that haven't yet joined UKIP who had hoped to stop the BNP takeover of the party.

UKIP recently announced a revised devolution policy that would see the creation of a federal UK with devolved parliaments for all four home nations.  The final touches are being put to the full devolution policy paper before it goes to the membership for ratification.  UKIP is the only non-racist, mainstream democratic party advocating the creation of a federal UK with equality for all four home nations.

English Democrats: not left, not right, just racist.

Update:
The Chairman of the English Democrats, Robin Tilbrook, has issued a threat by email demanding the removal of this post, an apology for defamation and an undertaking not to criticise the English Democrats again.  His email and my reply are in the comments and needless to say he's going to be very disappointed.  Robin is a solicitor and as such I would expect him to know that you can't defame a political party but judging by this latest email and the previous threats I've had off him over the years (none of which had the desired effect, naturally) I can only assume the Chairman of the English Democrats is just very bad at his job.

Item 7 in the English Democrats' Communications Officer's report of the Saturday's monthly NEC meeting says:

7. The membership application from Eddy Butler to join the English Democrats was accepted

A copy of the report can be found on the England Exists blog, amongst other places.  Chris Beverley - another prominent BNP activist that the English Democrats accepted into their ranks - also confirms that Eddy Butler has joined the English Democrats.

Further Update:
Robin Tilbrook did indeed attempt to sue me for defamation and malicious falsehood in the High Court.  He lost.

Angus Reid Public Opinion poll

An opinion poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion backs up the running order from yesterday's  Survation's poll, albeit with different numbers.

According to Angus Reid, Labour are increasing their lead with 42% of the vote, the Tories are second with 33%, the Limp Dems third with 8% and UKIP fourth with 7%.  The SNP are way in front in Scotland with a large enough majority to give them 4% in the UK-wide tally.

The breakdown by region shows consistent support for UKIP across England, not just traditional Tory-voting areas which is further proof that UKIP is gaining true cross-party support.  The highest support for UKIP can be found in the south of England although this doesn't cater for the "Midlands Wales effect" skewing the figures for the Midlands: polling companies include Wales in with the Midlands which prevents an accurate figure for the East- and West Midlands euroregions where there is considerable support for UKIP.  The "Midland Wales effect" doesn't skew the UK figures but it does make them pretty useless for predicting EU or local election results.

The results of opinion polls are just an indication of popular support before party propaganda, BBC bias and last minute bottlers bump up the votes for the LibLabCon parties but the figures are encouraging nonetheless.

STARVATION IN TO SUBMISSION

Britons are begining to face starvation, charity food parcels are being relied on by 100,000 Britons.  This I fear will increase.

I fear the wicked planners of this mess we are in may have the belief that starving us is the only way they can get submission into the new world order and oppressing us to such an extent that it will starve out all resistance to the new world order from which the gangsters we call the political class shall be immune.

The last decision of the life of the world

Since the world began, we have always had a right or wrong choice.  That choice has always been slow going but it is about to speed up because the choice of right is under threat and is actually being banned in parts.

The political class have turned this on its head.  For the singular individual it is a life and death choice and it will be the only issue in the world that really really counts. Which will you choose?

Blogger Guido Fawkes summoned to Leveson Inquiry

Blogger Guido Fawkes summoned to Leveson Inquiry

Worry about Guido Fawks being summons to this enquiry, I assume it is something to do with practicing his freedom of speach on his Blog.

This disturbs bloggers and free speech people on Facebook, it also worrying to me that this may reflect on the European arrest law if they could do something like this and cause total disappearance.

I think we should keep our eyes on this one.

UKIP polling 11% in Survation poll

A Survation poll for the Daily Star on Sunday has UKIP on 11% - much higher than the 7-8% that the other polling companies have us on.

Survation is the polling company that successfully predicted the result of the Meopham North council by-election in October and had the most accurate prediction of all the polling companies for the Barnsley by-election in March.

For the full set of results check out Survation's website - they make very interesting reading indeed and if they translate into actual vote shares in the next general election we could be looking at double figure numbers of UKIP MPs.

Why Farage's battle is is harder than Churchill's

Churchill's battle was straight forward warfare. Their side, our side, men in uniform and war strategy.

This Battle is different, it's as though the British people are wearing Nazi uniforms and don't know they have got them on.

Nigel Farage's enemies are not Europeans as such, they are his own people who conspired secretly to surrender our country.  This Nation had been under attack for years before UKIP came on the scene,
the art of the Battle is mind games, the Enemy set out to change our way of thinking to drag us down into agreement with their plans without us knowing.

At this moment in time, if there was no UKIP there would be no hope, because the heart and mind of the Labour, Liberal and Tory voters have been so badly defeated they don't know they are in a real battle for the salvation of the country.  The minds of all these people have to be changed and that is no easy task.

European rulers are dead set on conquering Europe.  So you see, fighting your own people to get them to stand up for what is theirs is harder than the enemy getting them to surrender what is theirs. That is Brainwashing. UKIP is the de-brainwasher, very hard to do.

Look for the silver lining

Wait for the silver lining. is an old song by Diana Durben. My Mam used to sing it when she was broke and the gas man came and left her a rebate out of the meter. Well among the political class,we have no sign of a silver lining for years, none from Blair, Brown,or Milliband or whatever his name is and none from David Cameron.

But there is now. The silver lining is called a Farage, a Nigel Farage and the UKIP party. Watch for them in the political skies.

Second place for UKIP in Halzemere

UKIP had a great election result yesterday in Hazlemere in the Wycombe District Council by-election.

• Lib Dem 412
• UKIP 365
• Conservative 228
• Labour 88

An excellent second place for UKIP and a surprise 3rd for the Tories who dominate the district council (although not as much of a surprise as the loony Lib Dems winning an election!).

EU membership fee now £50m per day

Analysis of figures contained in the UK balance of payments "pink book" by UKIP shows that direct contributions to the EU from the UK were £50,000,000 per day last year.

That £50m per day equates to £18.25bn (£18,250,000,000) per year.  That's £300 per year for every man, woman and child in the UK just to pay to direct contributions.  The extra costs associated with EU membership in terms of protectionist tariffs that make goods expensive, damaging environmental taxes, the burden of red tape that makes doing business expensive, etc. are on top of that.

Most of the population want to leave the EU, it is for the europhiles to make the case for continued membership.  The single market doesn't require £50m per day membership of the EU so what do we get out of the EU that's worth £18.25bn per year?  If the British government can't find anything then there's no excuse for keeping us in, wasting all that money.

South Telford Rights of Way Partnership

The Ramblers Association are marching on Shropshire Council's offices today in protest at cuts of up to 40% to the budget for footpaths and rights of way.

Stirchley & Brookside Parish Council was one of the founding members of South Telford Rights of Way Partnership (STROWP) which is an excellent model for the Ramblers Association to adopt for Shropshire.

I spoke to our parish clerk this morning for some history on STROWP as I was aware of the work it currently does but not of how it came into being.  I was surprised to learn that it was set up some 20 years ago to fight against foothpath closures by Telford Development Corporation (TDC) who were building on vast swathes of green space that is now south Telford.  The group has evolved over the years into its current form where it is more concerned with promoting the walks around south Telford and ensuring footpaths are properly maintained.

STROWP produces leaflets for self-guided walks around south Telford as well as at least one guided walk for fundraising.  The parish councils involved - Stirchley & Brookside, Madeley, Dawley Hamlets and The Gorge - fund a part time project officer for STROWP who organises these events, surveys rights of way and co-ordinates maintenance and repair jobs by Community Payback and volunteers.

The partnership works really well for the parishes involved, promoting the walks in south Telford, keeping the footpaths well maintained and informing people about areas of local historic interest.  It costs about £1 per household per year to fund the Stirchley & Brookside's contribution to STROWP which really isn't very much money for such a valuable service.  The idea could easily be transferred to Shropshire - the parish councils that have a lot of footpaths which are likely to suffer most from budget cuts could collaborate with each other to form a similar group and co-ordinate volunteers.

I was interviewed by BBC Radio Shropshire this morning about this very subject which was apparently airing this afternoon.  If I can find a listen again link I'll post it here!

Cross-posted from: Cllr Stuart Parr