Brown: ' I act in Britain's national interest'

"If Gordon Brown has done a deal that would mean a French commissioner being in charge of the economic issues that affect Britain the most then that could be a serious concern. Our French partners have a different view on market issues that touch on Britain's vital economic interests. I look forward to the Government taking this opportunity to be completely open about what has been agreed."

In a letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, Mr Hague adds:

"The financial services sector is an area of extreme sensitivity for the British national interest. It is of crucial importance to the future of a pro-growth EU that there is no retreat from the principle of a free market within the EU." Source

Thus the traitor Brown, furthering his scorched earth strategy, hands over the British economy to a Conservative government.

Delusional, incompetent, ruthless, bitter - and wicked.

The Red, the yellow and the Green

"In fact, I would suggest that Islamic dictatorships who forbid women to drive on pain of stoning will one day be seen as the heroes of the ecological movement." - Professor Henry Brubaker

What does he mean, 'one day'?

Do keep up, Professor.

The single-minded wannabe-dictators among the Elect of L Ron Gore's new marxoid religion of Climate-Science-ology are the same cringing socialist apologists for even the most murderous Islamists. They 'feel their pain', you know.

But only the pain of the men. Not hers:

Obiter dicta

So Smith and McNulty got off thanks to this crook.

It's an old chestnut but one recalls the words of a weary Irish judge:

'You have been acquitted by a Limerick jury and leave this court with no other stain upon your character.'

Depression in Prospect

I read Prospect magazine so as to understand and keep an eye on the Gramscians. I deserve a fucking medal. I don’t know how much longer I can keep it up. It is an infinitely depressing task. I consider it a sort of duty, to be undertaken only with a glass of Caledonian medication in hand to stiffen the resolve.

The stiffener is a sine qua non lest after an hour in the company of bitter and self-pitying Lefties, confusedly bewailing their comprehensive defeat by the forces of reality and liberty (Bright at the Spectator, Cohen at Standpoint… gee, I dunno…) one should lose sight of the light in the eastern sky and grope blindly for that Special Edition Leonard Cohen CD with the cut-throat taped to the jewel-case.

They just cannot get over it. Even knowing that for six decades, which is more than most dictatorships get before the ropes and lamp-posts come into play, they dominated British culture and condemned all other philosophies to pariah status is not enough to cheer these Leftie bastards up. What do they want? Permanent revolution or something?

David Herman weeps into his fair-trade coffee as he lauds Poliakoff, the last Big Leftie at the BBC ('They simply don't dare cast him aside'... oo-er!) of Herman’s personal playwright pantheon of Hare, Griffiths, McEwan and of course Loach. Sigh. Of course, Loach.

He is disheartened by the rise of, for example, ‘revisionist’ (Left-speak for 'academically suspect') Andrew Roberts and of Niall Ferguson who quickly fails the Left’s simplest test by finding a couple of redeeming features in the eeeeeevil British Empire, like ‘the spread of legal norms and fighting the Nazis’. Cor. What a right wing bastard that Ferguson is. Chiz.

Herman dismisses ‘liberal’ Andrew Marr for the ‘lack of confidence’ in the ‘leftish pieties’ of his recent TV series, grumbling that Marr is only ‘repeating’ what the Left’s great thinkers said in the 1970s and not making ‘connections between past and present’. The past, that is, being the terrible days of ‘the defeat of the working class’ at the hands of Nazism and Thatcherism which, and I am not making this up, Herman brackets together. No, don't.

‘The defeat of the working class.’ Now there’s a phrase with which to describe the liberation of the poor from enslavement to Stalinists like Arthur 'Mining Disaster' Scargill and Bob ‘Jurassic’ Crowe; from career Spartists like Livingstone with his corrupt nomenklatura, and from the delusional Marxoids who flew the Red Flag over Islington’s fine Town Hall in the Left's heyday, with the borough’s Politburo dominated by Margaret ‘Enver’ Hodge, until she boarded the great parliamentary gravy train out to post-industrial Essex, there to dictate Left crapology to the Clarkson-admiring English natives whom she and the Comrades openly despise.

Actually, I think I shall soldier on with Prospect a while longer. It might be amusing to observe the wailing and gnashing when the Conservatives are in government.

The blogger is IN.

One does get a bit of time off from chief-cookery and bottle-washery and a bit of blogging is good for the soul.

I shall be, as the saying goes, in and out.

Today, IN.

We can see what she's thinking but...

.... what's he saying?

Lest we forget

The founder of the British Union of Fascists was a prominent Fabian and friend of Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald in whose government he was a minister, who, after the Second World War, advocated a single nation-state covering the continent of Europe.

The surreal (are they on palliative drugs already?) Labour Party political broadcast (final cut here) shows old footage of Mosely but strangely the voice-over omits some important facts about him, instead claiming that Mandela and Obama were members of the London Labour Party in the 1930s and fought the Battle of Cable Street*. Or something.

* from which the Communist Party of Great Britain banned its members. (Individual Communists took to the streets anyway.) One can only muse upon the CPGB's thinking. On the other hand, why bother? Communists... Fascists... yada-yada-yada...

It was the right thing to do

Bunker/Harman line:

We courageously took the right decisions and have already introduced our Pre-Kelly Act not all of whose provisions will now be introduced. If necessary we will legislate again.

English:

Gordon Brown had a bout of premature ejaculation legislation at the height of the expenses hue and cry because Cameron cast aspersions on the political virility in which he prides himself and which has always characterised his politics. It turned out to be nothing more than a wank but what the fuck, we’re finished anyway and it will be for those smug Tory bastards to clear up the shite. And yes, this Gracious Speech is another big wank, as I believe His Royal Highness muttered as he clambered back into the coach.

Why I am a Conservative

The Conservatives* exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.

My new, very important and carefully-crafted Mission Statement is twocked from the blog of Liberal Democrat Sara Bedford. Only the *name has been changed, to underline the fatuity.

Sara's blog is amusingly called 'Always win when you’re singing'.

Bless.

Distracted

Apologies to my regular reader but blogging is having to take a back seat because of illness in the Prodicus family.

The arse-achingly enraging daily shite oozing out of the electric wireless is making me as angry as ever, of course, but I just haven't got the wossname to focus on any of it long enough to sit at the keyboard and compose coherent prose. It will all just have to fester among the little grey cells until the typing finger itch becomes unbearable.

If Brown tops himself, I may be able to summon the energy for a small celebration - and to warn the nation not to give Labour a sympathy victory at the election. Still, with Miliband Major in charge, the nation would need no warnings from the likes of Prodicus.

Normal service will be resumed eventually.

When epistolary duty must be done

What he said.

Improve your word power!

Today's word is:

Euroslavia.

Everybody's doing it, doing it, doing it.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, is the Founding President of Green Cross International and is heading an international Climate Change Task Force.

No change there, then.

UPDATE

Look where he is now:

No, no and thrice no

Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister, said he was ”sceptical” and dismissed Mr Brown as someone ”known for always raising taxes”.

You think?

Dominique Strauss Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, repeated his view the tax was “a very old idea that is not really possible today”.

You think?

Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary delivered the coup-de-grace. “A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support,” he insisted. The US thinks examples of the tax, including the UK’s 0.5 per cent “stamp duty” on share transactions have a “mixed” history.

You think?

Way to go, Gordon. I mean, way to GO.

Quotes from the FT

L Ron Gore for Archbishop of Canterbury

I had a bit of a lie-in this morning. Half-awake, I switched on the radio and caught the last half of the Sunday religious affairs magazine on BBC Radio 4.

They were talking about the Windsor Celebration, a meeting of world religious leaders pledging to 'reduce the carbon footprints of their faiths' (whatever the fuck that means) everywhere from Medjugorje to Medina.

So I was right, then. L Ron Gore has indeed got his 'control system' accepted as a world religion.

They had an angry Christian Aid woman on. Jeebus, I hope I never meet her because it would not go well. She went off message briefly, forgetting not to call it 'global warming' now that the approved line is 'climate change' because the globe is, er, cooling.

Still, nobody's perfect, and anyway she cheered me up immensely, complaining that huge numbers of the people on whom she inflicts herself refuse to accept what she called 'the science'. I leapt out of bed shouting 'Hurrah!'

I stopped putting money in the Christian Aid envelope they year they started taking advice from L Ron Gore on how to spend it. I told their collector so and at least he had the grace to grin.

UPDATE:

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because it is a global tragedy of the commons, individual action cannot be enough. I cannot ensure the survival of my grandchildren, nor even yours, without compelling you to behave in ways that science tells me are necessary. Not to act, not to coerce, itself becomes immoral.

There is a further twist to the argument. Compulsion will be needed but compulsion alone won't do it. People aren't made like that. They need to believe in what they are forced to do. They need idealism, and that will also mean its dark side: the pressure of conformism, the force of self-righteousness, huge moral weight attached to practically useless gestures like unplugging phone chargers. They need, in fact, something that does look a lot like religion. But we can't engineer it. It can only arise spontaneously. Should that happen, the denialists, who claim that it is all a religion, will for once be telling the truth, and when they do that, they'll have lost. I just hope it doesn't happen too late.

The mask slips...

Hat tip Mark Wallace

Reasons to hate the Labour Party - #9

Labour's anti-middle-class vendetta is now threatening to criminalise any parent who contemplates the sin of bourgeois aspiration and penalise any child whose misfortune it is to have conscientious parents.

Janet Daley

Gordon Brown’s long march to the ruination of Britain

Chaos, ruin and un-governability are prerequisites of revolution. What Lenin could only dream of, Gordon Brown has all but achieved.

How did this happen? How far, I wonder, is Brown's scorched earth Britain from the precipice?

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Gordon Brown was anointed in his permanently safe Parliamentary seat and set on the path to near-certain power by Ron Hayward, General Secretary of the Labour Party and close friend and fellow-traveller of the Soviet Communist Party, and by Alec Kitson, senior TGWU official and enthusiastic admirer of the Soviet system. Brown’s Dunfermline seat was in the personal gift of the local TGWU boss, Communist Hugh Wyper.

Spectator:

Ron Hayward [General Secretary of the Labour Party] envisioned a real Soviet-style system in Britain with the Party General Secretary - not the MPs' leader - at the top. Chernyaev's diary says he would refer to himself … as ‘the first Labour leader in history who is not afraid to come out alongside Communists with same agenda’, Chernyaev quotes. He even stated later … that Hayward ‘prepares young people, puts them in the right places, helps them to become prominent’.

When Brown entered politics, the General Secretary was a real power in the Labour Party while the trade unions wielded enormous power both inside the Party and across the entire economy. The unions paralysed the Wilson Labour government and destroyed the Callaghan Labour government.

Why, I wonder, did these these extremely powerful Marxist friends of Moscow choose Gordon Brown as their man-for-life? What did they see in the young historian of Socialism? What did they want of him? Why did he accept their patronage with such alacrity?

Brown hated Blair for blocking his path. He warred with him for ten years. He had accepted Blair’s personal electoral attractiveness as a means to an end, the end being Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, as envisaged from the start by his powerful patrons on the Marxist Hard Left.

Blair was never on the inside. He was never one of them. He was supposed to be the poster boy and nothing more. The Deal: Brown had total control of domestic policy while Blair strutted the international stage. Blair was no ideologue. He was not pure. He abolished Clause IV. (Hayward must have raged in his grave.) And how the Left hated him, and still does, and made sure he was driven from office against his will and without the say-so of the electorate.

In 2009, Gordon Brown publicly mourned the passing of Jack Jones, boss of the TGWU and (paid) Soviet agent – that is, traitor – who was ennobled and pensioned by the Labour Party presumably for his life-long work, under orders from an enemy, to destroy the British constitution. Jones's objectives in that regard have been pursued loyally in every year that they have been in office by both Gordon Brown and Broad Left leader Jack Straw, now Lord Chancellor with responsibility for 'constitutional reform'.

And the trade union legacy of KGB agent Jack Jones? All is well:

• The enormous, wealthy, *Moscow-Communist-friendly TGWU sponsored Kinnock, Beckett, Harman (her husband is a senior TGWU/Unite boss), Communist sympathiser Straw, Reid (Communist Party member into the 1970s) and dozens of others.
• 54 current Labour MPs are sponsored by the TGWU’s successor organisation, Unite.
• Derek Simpson, Joint Gen-Sec of Unite, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until the death of the Party which was wound up in 1991.
• Unite's cash is keeping the bankrupt Labour Party on life support.
• Unite’s political officer is Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s personal enforcer for so many years.

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* Labour has not been friendly to British Communists for decades.

Strategically, the two were too suspiciously close for strategic comfort. Distance was required. Labour has long protested that it is ‘anti-Communist’.

In addition, there have been lethal internecine fights on the Left. They are a permanent feature of Left politics but they are fundamentally about means, not ends. The common end is the realisation of Marx’s vision of socialist society.

The hatreds and, e.g., the banning of Communists from membership of the Labour Party, are about strategic and tactical manoeuvring for power, often personal power, and cosmetic masks to disguise the truth of behind-the-scenes activities such as those revealed this week by the Chernyaev papers.

It is also the case that hard Left ideologues – socialists are essentially ideologues to some degree – will sacrifice each other for the cause without blinking. The soft Left is less intelligent, more sentimental and more cowardly. And more patient. Compare David Miliband (son of a Polish Marxist who is buried near Marx) with, say, George Galloway.

A dangerous man

Every day in every way, Gordon Brown's presence on the international stage is diminishing this country in the eyes of the world.

The world's leaders and diplomats are leaving him on the sidelines even as those with the financial muscle to make or break our currency are backing slowly away from the economic leprosy with which Brown has infected the United Kingdom.

Domestically, Brown's every move continues to inflict serious damage on the peace and prosperity of this country. It is becoming clear that this is calculated: a scorched earth policy to lay waste to a nation whose discontents, pain and un-governability will destroy the next government, the Conservative Party and David Cameron.

Brown's ideological and intellectual roots - and his heart - have always been wholly focused on the destruction of the Conservative Party which he hates with a visceral, distorting hatred. Never an economist, the lifelong intellectual love of Gordon Brown, PhD (History) has been the history of Socialism, its Marxist roots, its expression in trade unionism and its war with Conservatism.

The more his political troubles increase in the dying days of this failed government, the hotter his hatred for the Conservative Party and the more twisted his agenda, to the great trouble of the nation.

Much more of Brown's dangerous behaviour and he may find the Palace calling the election instead of him.

He is and always has been a dangerous man. He should be impeached.

Remedy this asap, Dave

In England in 2005…

Conservatives won 194 seats from 8,115,000 votes

Labour won 286 seats from 8,050,000 votes

This is not just any public relations FAIL

Story from Sky

Alastair Campbell linked to the rubbishing of Kelly

What, again?

First this.

And now this.

Vote Labour. You know it makes sense.

‘Balls falls!’- help write a great headline

Calling all Twits and anyone else interested in neo-endogenous interwebs election campaign theory.

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And let me tell you, it will feel soooooo good just doing your tiny bit towards making it happen.

Go on. You know you want to.

Any ideas for alternative headlines? 'Labour's got no Balls'... over to you.

Hat tips to ConHome and Tory Bear.

Force majeure

It's the little things which betray a man's true character.

Only the unstoppable or immovable causes Gordon Brown to withdraw from positions which he knows to be right even if when they are wrong, mad or insulting. That this makes him an exceedingly dangerous man has become clear to the whole country including the Labour remnant who will vote for him out of blind tribalism at the general election.

Brown was grossly discourteous to the Lord Mayor of London when he was guest of honour at the annual banquet for holders of his high office of state, refusing outright to wear formal dress in accordance with custom. The Chancellor of the Exchequer alone wore a lounge suit.

He thereby demeaned the office of which he was temporary custodian and insulted the people whose constitution enabled him to hold it, shoving his class warrior principles into the faces of his hosts whose industry was to shore up his socialist profligacy for the next decade and more. It doubtless gave the tasteless little man immense satisfaction.

Buckingham Palace protocol is a very great deal stronger than the political prejudices of a temporary public servant, forcing even a blustering bully like Brown to give way. This is as it should be in the office of the Head of State.

Even the Brown Boor, notorious coward that he is, had not the balls to stand against a specific Royal Command. He had to swallow hard and wear full evening dress to a State banquet for a visiting foreign head of state, within months of his party's coming into government and weeks of his insult to the City of London.

As Chancellor, though, he persisted with his sartorial discourtesies to everyone but the Head of State for a decade. Only when he became Prime Minister, knowing that the eyes of the world were following his every move, did he concede. He began to wear formal dress when asked to do so. One suspects that the Palace advised him on how to comport himself when representing the country at home and abroad, and one can be sure that the Palace's advice was not mere advice.

I wonder how Brown would respond were one of his ministers less malleable than himself, if you can imagine such a possibility, and flatly refused to wear formal dress at any function he was hosting in Number Ten.

I think I can guess.

You see, the important thing is not the subject matter but having the power of the casting vote.

In our constitution, the Head of State does not hold office by virtue of his or her talent for political mountaineering, bullying or sycophancy. The greasy pole has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

The monarch's authority, albeit wielded by the will of Parliament and people, is entirely apolitical. The monarch does not share the opprobrium heaped upon the heads, according to circumstances, of politicians. The monarch's authority is therefore greater than that of any politician, including Brown, who believes himself infallible and deludes himself that he may yet be politically immortal.

That is why I am a monarchist.

Academic debate in Exeter University

"What can we do to change the whiteness of Devon and Cornwall?"

Apparently, even bonkers lefty-luvvie Emma Thompson balked at that one, answering the questioner's supplementary rather than give the technically correct answer, 'Fuck the fuck off, you racist fuck'.

But I jest.

Seriously, how dare all those native-born West Country whiteys just, you know, stay there? They should be forcibly fucking re-educated advised that their behaviour is racist and therefore unacceptable in a multi-cultural twenty-first century society..

And why isn't the bloody government forcibly transporting the darkies of Brent and Brixton to Exeter and Redruth?

Do all these racist fuckers still think they can live where the fuck they like? WTF?

We need a proper old-fashioned fascist government to sort out all these freedom-loving fuckers.

There's never a Hitler around when you want one, is there? Still, you know what they say. You wait ages for one and then they all arrive at once.

Europe, Episode 73: 'The Germans'

Imagine, just for fun, that Germany said, for whatever reason, 'We're leaving. Simples. Sod waiting years for you lot to decide whether to give us your permission or not. Auf wiedersehen.'

What do you think would then happen?

Ah, you say. But... the Euro! They've handed their bank balance over to the EuroFed! They can't leave!

Yes, indeed. And if they hadn't?

I commented thus at the Kitchen. Wonder if anyone will follow up...

'Pravda'. It's Russian for 'truth'.

As recently as 2006, a most eloquent and insightful warning against the EU and the Lisbon Treaty's precursor, the ill-fated “constitution”, was given by former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky. Traumatized by the experience of living in the Soviet Union, Bukovsky noted the deeply disturbing similarities between the old Soviet Union and the blueprints for the EU super state. The European Commission, he noted, was the exact equivalent of the old Soviet Politbureau, in terms of the secretive way power was exercised, the recruitment and personalities of its members and the scope and reach of its decisions. The “European Parliament” today (and under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty) is a mere rubber stamp institution, just like the “Supreme Soviet” of the old USSR.

As a matter of fact, there are so many similarities between the old Soviet Union and the EU that mere coincidence is unlikely. Bukovsky argues the EU was designed to be like the old USSR. The architects of the EU? Mostly social democrats, whom Stalin quite aptly called “Social Fascists.”

Most Europeans have not yet understood this. Most are still indifferent, but their indifference will soon vanish when the full weight of repressive EU policies and EU taxation doing its destructive work will be felt.

Sooner than anybody now thinks, the only way to vent criticism of the EU will be in the form of jokes. No doubt many of the characteristic old Soviet jokes will be dusted off and given an anti-European Commission twist.

By that time, all Europeans except for the privileged class of “eurocrats” will be prisoners in the EU. However, they will certainly have a wonderful Constitution.

From a stonkingly good article at Pravda.

Honour thy godfather

Well, now.

Gordon Brown went straight into Parliament at his first time of asking. None of that nonsense about fighting a hopeless seat to show your mettle and gain experience.

No, he was anointed. He was given a free pass into one of the safest seats in the country.

Anointed by whom?

By a paid KGB agent and a bosom friend of the Moscow ruling elite.

Democracy? The protégé of Moscow's salaried trade union boss, at whose death he shed tears this year? Referendum? What, you mean like in the glorious Soviet Union?

Elections? He's never had to fight an election in his life and he doesn't intend to start now.

Brown knows only the power machinery of the politburo and he associates only with the nomenklatura.

Brown is a true son of his spiritual father, KGB Agent Jones and true disciple of Class Warrior Comrade Hayward, Labour Party General Secretary and regularly feted guest of the Party. In Moscow.

What's that slogan Dave's going to use? Ah yes. Never again.