Another Cast Iron Guarantee™ from Dave

David Cameron has given another Cast Iron Guarantee™ of an EU referendum and says he won't be Prime Minister if he can't deliver one.

Cast Iron Dave (as we like to call him) says that he thinks it's important he carries out several years of negotiation before holding a referendum and is confident that he can get meaningful change because the eurozone countries was more changes to support their fiscal union. He says that regardless of the outcome of his negotiations he'll hold the referendum anyway and that's a Cast Iron Guarantee™.

Let's examine this in a bit more depth ...

Is negotiating before a referendum useful?
For Cameron it is, yes. He can "negotiate" some superficial changes to the EU that will be ultimately meaningless and cost us more of our sovereignty and money and the spin doctors can package it up as a big coup for David Cameron and a major blow to the EU's plans for ever closer union. Under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, once we tell the EU that we're leaving we then have to spend the next two years negotiating to see if there's a way we can be convinced to stay. Negotiating now is only useful if you need propaganda for the campaign to stay in.

Can meaningful change be achieved?
Since the Lisbon Treaty was signed we have to give two years' notice that we're leaving and we're required to spend those two years negotiating with them. It's during those two years that any meaningful negotiation might take place, not before it and not when Cameron has already told the EU that he wants to stay in and will campaign for us to stay in regardless of the outcome of his negotiations. The threat of a referendum on our membership was Cameron's ace card and he wasted it by very publicly announcing that he would want to stay in the EU regardless of the outcome of negotiations. It doesn't matter that the eurozone countries want change as well because what they want is more integration and more power for the EU, not less and there is no legal mechanism for taking power off the EU, only to give it more.

Will we ever get a referendum?
Doubtful. We had a Cast Iron Guarantee™ of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and it turned out to be worthless. Cameron whipped his MPs to vote against a referendum in 2011 when it finally got to parliament after a 100,000 signature petition forced the issue to ensure that no referendum took place in this parliament. He got a Bill through parliament to legislate for a referendum in 2017 if the Conservatives win the next election outright which is extremely unlikely and any politician that feels the need to pass a law to make them keep a promise clearly can't be trusted anyway. Not that the law will actually force him to hold a referendum anyway because as we saw with Labour's pinky promise law not to introduce the university tax in England in 2001, laws can be repealed as easily as they're made when you have an outright majority.

UKIP's racist black, Asian, eastern European and Jewish candidates

Here are some of the black, Asian, eastern European and Jewish UKIP candidates who were subjected to racial abuse by far left extremists from trade union funded hate groups this week. They're all racists, apparently.

Conservative ex-mayor charged with possession of indecent images of children

A former Conservative mayor of Weston-super-Mare has appeared in court to face 11 charges of making indecent photos of children.

Philip Judd was still a Conservative councillor and mayor of Weston and a school governor when he was arrested for possession of indecent photos of children last year. He resigned as a councillor and school governor.

He has been given unconditional bail and is due back in court again on 3rd June.

English Democrats MEP candidate calls for forced repatriation of immigrants

An English Democrats MEP candidate in the East Midlands euroregion has called for the forced repatriation of immigrants and their descendants.

Oliver Healey is number four on the MEP list for the English Democrats in the East Midlands despite living in Telford which is in the West Midlands euroregion. He has been promoting his policy that "repatriation either voluntary or compulsory must now begin".

In a fairly lengthy discussion on the British Democracy Forum with UKIP supporters, Healey spouts reams and reams of pseudo-intellectual nonsense repeatedly calling for the forced repatriation of immigrants and their descendants.

The English Democrats aren't having much luck with their MEP candidates. South east of England candidate, Julia Gasper, who was forced to resign from UKIP after calling gay rights a "lunatics charter" and linking homosexuality with bestiality, wrote on her blog that there are "too many gay people" in position of power and said that World Aids Day is responsible for spreading disease around the world. Meanwhile, their lead candidate for the south east of England and EDL activist, Steve Uncles, is due to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on June 12th to answer 10 twice-denied charges of electoral fraud relating to the local elections last year.

If you'd like more information on how the English Democrats would manage this forced repatriation of 6m people or prevent gays from becoming MPs, you can ring their campaign hotline on 01293 873894.

Respect candidate has electoral fraud conviction

The Respect Party have been accused of hypocrisy for condemning ballot-rigging whilst putting up a candidate who has a conviction for electoral fraud.

Arshad Ali, who stepped down as chairman of the party in 2012 when his conviction became public knowledge, spent 6 weeks in prison in 1997 for his part in fiddling Labour's landslide election victory.

The Tories, Labour and Lib Dems on Bradford City Council have called for a change to the law that would ban anyone convicted of electoral fraud from standing for public office for life.

Anti-UKIP protesters shout racist abuse at black and Asian candidates

Nigel Farage appeared at a meeting in London with a selection of UKIP candidates from ethnic minorities to ask how UKIP can be a racist party with so many BME candidates.

If you listen carefully you can hear the left wing extremists shouting racist abuse at them, including "coconut" and "oreo" - brown on the outside, white on the inside. It's not uncommon to hear black and Asian people call each other these names as banter but when it's screamed across a public auditorium at people you're branding racists it's clearly racial abuse.

Fascist animals send blood and faeces to UKIP

The fascists trying to attack UKIP to prevent the humiliating defeat of their beloved Labour Party have hit a new low, sending suspect and hazardous packages to UKIP's head office.

The bomb squad had to be called in to the Royal Mail's sorting office in Peterborough after staff because concerned about two parcels addressed to the party with suspicious messages on them. The packages were x-rayed and found not to contain explosives but faeces.

A number of packages have been sent to UKIP offices containing faeces and blood in the past week or so posing a serious health risk to UKIP and Royal Mail staff. It is a criminal offence to send faeces or blood or similar through the post, not to mention offence to common human decency. These people are animals and the bigger the threat to the Labour Party, the less human they get.

The hate-filled far left pose a significant risk to national security that needs addressing. They are stirring up hatred and creating divisions in society that will inevitably result in a counter-movement by the far right who are just waiting for something that will galvanise support. The more extreme the far left hate campaign gets, the greater the risk of it happening and the likes of the militant fascist group, Unite Against Fascism and trade union front organisation Hope not Hate are fomenting even more hatred and inciting people to commit criminal offences as part of their political campaign.

These far left fascist groups enjoy the support of senior politicians including the leaders of all three of the LibLabCon parties and therefore have the protection of the police who dance to the tune of whichever politicians are in power at the time. The security services are a different matter though and they will undoubtedly have people inside these groups just as they have in UKIP. Let's just hope they stop these animals before they cause civil unrest and someone gets hurt.

Birmingham Post columnist admits destroying UKIP poster

Birmingham artist and Birmingham Post columnist, Bill Drummond, has admitted to destroying a UKIP billboard in his weekly column.

In his column, Drummond compares UKIP to the Nazis and says that the posters offend him morally and aesthetically. He goes on to suggest that he might do every other UKIP poster he can find. Hoping to get some public support her says that he's worried that the police might come for him but it's all in the name of art dahling. Instead he's been told what an idiot he is in the comments and convinced some people who were unsure to vote for UKIP!

Despite what he says, Drummond hasn't destroyed the poster in the name of his art he's making a political statement. He's committed hundreds of pounds worth of criminal damage and bragged about it in his newspaper column. It wasn't clever, it wasn't "ironic", it was just stupid and hopefully the police make an example of this pathetic self-publicist.

Roger Helmer selected as UKIP's candidate for Newark by-election

Roger Helmer has been selected as UKIP's candidate for the Newark by-election that will take place on the 5th of June following the "resignation" of cash for questions Tory MP Patrick Mercer.

The gutter press have been trying to outdo each other with character assassinations against Roger since the announcement was made that he would be standing, all of them based on a defamatory work of fiction published in the Sun a couple of weeks ago which tried to make him sound like a gay-basher.

Roger made a statement on the Sun's attack on him at the time which should have cleared it up but the press are baying for UKIP blood, even if they have to make stuff up to get it.

A Personal Statement on The Sun’s accusations regarding homosexuality

I was shocked and appalled by the assertions made on April 29th in The Sun, and the next day by the Independent, that I had said it was “OK to despise gay people”.  The Independent version was worse “OK to hate gay people”.  The Sun added that I had said “homosexuality is a mental condition”, and implied that I thought that “homophobia is OK”.  I absolutely reject these allegations: I never said these things, and they certainly do not represent my views.  Let’s look at them one by one:

“It’s OK to despise gay people”: How the Sun gets from “It’s OK to have personal preferences” to “It’s OK to despise gay people”, I’m not sure.

“Being gay is a mental condition”.  In about thirty seconds I was able to identify two blog posts in my extensive blog archive in which I make the point explicitly that homosexuality is not a disease.

“Homophobia is OK”.    As a technical linguistic point, I have questioned the use of the term “phobia” in this context, since it has a specific meaning in psychiatry which does not (it seems to me) apply in this case.  But I have also written very clearly that prejudice, hostility and violence against any minority are wrong, and totally unacceptable.

In a blog post on July 19th 2009 I wrote: “Now I regard myself as liberal and tolerant on the question of homosexuality.  I have no interest in telling consenting adults what they may or may not do behind closed doors.  I have a number of colleagues whom I believe to be homosexual, and that causes me no problems at all.  Indeed there may be more people that I work with, who may be homosexual without my knowing it, since (as a friend once remarked) my “Gaydar” is poorly developed.  I am content to treat people as people, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation”.  http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/poles-take-some-stick/

Oxfordshire Tories cut opposition allowances & increase their own

Conservative-run Oxfordshire County Council has cut allowances for opposition councillors whilst leaving their own allowances intact and in some cases almost doubling them.

Conservative cabinet members will continue to receive their £12,565 special responsibility allowance on top of their £8,376 basic allowance (not bad for a part time job, eh?) whilst the more modest £2,456 special responsibility allowance paid to shadow cabinet members has been abolished. The special responsibility allowance for the Chairs of the Planning & Regulation, Audit & governance and Pension Fund committees will increase from £2,729 to £5,050 and the Deputy Chair of the Planning & Regulation committee will be paid a new special responsibility allowance of £2,729. They are all Conservative councillors.

Labour Mayor of Stafford's 10 day taxpayer-funded holiday in Virginia

The Labour Mayor of Stafford Borough Council has shown just how much we're all in this together by flying to America with her husband at the taxpayers' expense to celebrate the 350th birthday of Stafford County in Virginia.

The taxpayer will stump up the £1,748 cost of flying Comrade Angela Loughran and her husband across the Atlantic for the 10 day trip to their "sister community" where they will take part in a two hour parade and then spend the next week or so travelling around Virginia taking in the sights and paying a visit to Washington DC.

Benefits of the EU to trade are imaginary says thinktank

Think tank Civitas says that the benefits to trade of being in the EU are "imaginary" and "empty rhetoric".

Civitas says that the UK's exports to non-EU member states are rising whilst the EU's share is decreasing and points to the success of European countries outside the EU such as Switzerland and Iceland in negotiating trade agreements without the corruption and bureaucracy of the EU oligarchy.

Wolverhampton Tory candidate says city full of scum

A Conservative candidate for Wolverhampton City Council has said the city has a "disproportionate number of scum" and suggested that people should move somewhere nicer like Sudan or Syria.

Carl Husted left the comments on a YouTube video of a pensioner being attacked in Wolverhampton shared on Facebook. He has been warned about his conduct by the leader of Wolverhampton Conservatives but says his comments were "evidently a joke". Tres drôle.

Perverted Labour Party official skips bail

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Labour Party secretary and former council candidate convicted of videoing men taking a leak in the toilets of a Croydon shopping centre.

David Christison, who is secretary of West Thornton Labour and a member of West Thornton Community First panel, admitted two charges of observing a person doing a private act at least 30 times for sexual gratification.

Christison was bailed on the condition he didn't return to the shopping centre where he carried out his perverted hobby and was due to be sentenced at Croydon Magistrates Court on March 20th. He missed that hearing because he was recovering from a heart attack, a further hearing was adjourned and he was finally due to be sentenced on Thursday but decided to go on holiday to Turkey instead.

Tory candidate says Islam is "the religion of peace & rape"

A Tory candidate in Brentwood has resigned after making inappropriate comments on Twitter.

Zero Radio DJ David Bishop tweeted "#Islam 'the religion of peace' & rape" just two days after being announced as Conservative candidate for Brentwood, Essex. Other tweets include "It's good to be anti-Islam", "How CAN a gay guy keep a straight face?" and "A lesbian kiss on @bbceastenders before the watershed... okay BBC diversity soldiers we get it, now stop trying so hard #pathetic".

Bishop has resigned from the Conservative Party and urged people not to vote for him.