An eagle eyed letter writer in Her Majesties Daily Telegraph has spotted what is a telling bit of BBC propagandising for the Government . The politics show ( aren`t they all ) broadcast an item of Britishness , but guess what , it was not broadcast in Scotland or Wales.
Now I think it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Gordon Brown`s belated conversion to the union which we can see from the direction of the BBC`s loud hailer is actually only designed to dissipate English nationalism. English nationalism is of course a problem for Herr Braun , Scottish and Welsh double votes yield 69 precious seats to the Labour Party who have progressively benefited from the Celtic fringe drifting away from Unionism in to nationalism. Now they want to catch the pendulum just at this point preventing the expression of English rights to elect their own Government just as the others do . There are various tactics
1 Force PR on England and negotiate a centre left alliance with the Lib Dems
2 Bang on about British values to the English whilst allowing the Scots to take more and more power preferably within existing legislation
3 Chop England up into EU regions
It is fairly amazing that the BBC is assisting with part of this tactic and fairly amazing that they can refer to the Scottish Government , the English ‘regions’ ( as they do ) and conduct this sort of propaganda exercise at our expense.
I demand my ethnicity to be recognised . English .
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
Cassilis is always a good read although he is a bit of “Seeing-all-sides-and-must therefore be right “ merchant. I always like CS Lewis on this when he pointed out there are endless answers to a question until you know the right one and then there is one. Anyway, on the Bishop bashing issue he has pointed out that in a previous Church state row ( forcing Adoption agencies to consider gays ) those who are incandescent about Sharia law encroaching on the secular hegemony felt that religious considerations should take precedence over the states universal edict. I like the comparison because I think it takes us to the heart if what is going on here. I think Mr. C draws some suitably relativist conclusion. I do not . His post is the last and his address on the blog roll . This was my comment :
That is a good insight Cas I can tell because its exactly the one I had and this was what I thought the Archbish might have been getting at !.I recall thinking myself that the state aggressively interfering in religious voluntary arrange nets was a step too far
There are some differences in that the imposition of Sharia law would be controversial in a Muslim country whereas the Christian influence on the law in a Christian one is not.
Ultimately though ,this about the recognition of the ethnicity of the British and their right to have predominance in their own country .The outcry provoked by this ephemeral suggestion is a proxy expression of the betrayal of this ownership by the ruling elite who tend to derive values universally and care little for the particularity of the people . It is also an opportunity for the Labour Party to reassure its nationalist voters who are considering the BNP. So in many ways the Muslims who , by their fascist and aggressive actions have forfeited the PC cloak of darkness are standing for the frustrations on many scores . Meanwhile the real business of betrayal proceeds by the ratification of the Treaty by Liberal lies and Parliamentary manipulation .
Many, I believe , sense a terrible treachery is being perpetuated whilst being to busy to follow its awful details . This stealthy car boot sale of British birth rights is a dangerous way to go as Polly Toynbee points out . The fact is accomplished even as the argument is lost . 2 million foreigners working here , foreign rules imposed , foreign people , Germans and Poles telling us what we can and cannot do ?
Where is the electoral support for any of this ?
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Letter Two
This week I have tried to reply to this irritating and rather prissily expressed missive from Coucillor James Mac Cleary (Liberal Democrat )
I think this is what you call getting your retaliation in first:
“Sad as it is to see grown men behaving like children the Tories managed it at our last meeting of the Lewes District Council.I will put my hand up and say that it was I who was impudent enough to dare voicing opposition to the Tory Motion.
I should, point out that their motion was based on a model circulated by their central office that was put forward by Tory groups on councils up and down the country - we were the only Lib Dem Group to amend it in such as way. You can make your own mind up about who was acting on orders from where .The Tory group was well aware we could not support the motion and was attempting to play politics with the issue .
My amendment said that instead of dividing the council down Party lines as the Tory motion was designed to do , let’s unite by supporting the idea that we need an honest debate on Britain’s membership of the EU , rather than a narrow discussion of the single Treaty.
Sadly the , the term ’honest debate ’ is well outside the Tory Lexicon. The result is that your district Council is now committed to asking the Prime minister for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. A discussion the Tories have no interest in because they are so divided they don’t have an answer .On the other hand we have a clear view . We support Britain’s membership of the EU but want to see far reaching reform of all areas staring with the damaging Common Agricultural Policy, to make the EU work better fro British people .
Anway having failed to force their motion through the Tories abstained in the vote so the amendment was carried . Once again when the issue of Europe arises the Tory response can be summed up in two words , “WE abstain”
As queasy mix of pomposity and mendacity as you will find on any Council anywhere and there is nothing that the Councillor says that is not a lie in one way or another . I have replied below and I hope this time the Pro Liberal Express lets me in . The bias of our local paper is starting to become really irksome. Liberal conspiracy eh , gets everywhere.
NEWMANIA REPLIES
"Dear Sir
It’s a salutary thought, that Councillor McCleary thinks there is an audience so mentally enfeebled, as to be fooled by his vacuous bluster. I doubt, it but just for the record, these are the facts.
The Lisbon treaty is the disguised EU constitution, on which a manifesto commitment to support a referendum was made by the Liberals. The status of the treaty, soi disant, can be confirmed by any European leader you care to mention from Angela Merkel to Guilian Amata, ( former Italian PM), who sums it up nicely. ” The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no-one can ask for a referendum about it “. Quite .
In the event the Liberals reneged on their promise, and without them the principled Labour rebels are not enough to stop the betrayal of the country by its elite. Norman Baker surreptitiously slipped out his personal complicity in this shameful lie. So much for, “honest“, debate.
Their motives are equally self evident .The referendum that 70% want would be lost and the Liberal seen as conspiring with European bureaucrats against the British people . It is to avoid this they concocted their fiction of refusing to talk about it at all unless we talk about EU membership. Its like catching a man in bed with your wife who says “…can we unite in an honest discussion of fidelity and its place in society”. I think not.
The Conservative Party is deeply sceptical of the EU and committed to this countries sovereignty. The lists of dead on Lewes War memorial demand no less . Within these parameters there are a spectrum of honest views about the countries best interests but that is a world away from selling out the people and the country with a cheap trick.
So, Councillor Mac Leary can rage and rant, all he likes I enjoy a bit of theatre . King Lear, after has searing passages of tragically incoherent babble magically retaining their grandeur . King MacLeary is full of tragically incoherent babble. Well it’s a start
Your Sincerely
I think this is what you call getting your retaliation in first:
“Sad as it is to see grown men behaving like children the Tories managed it at our last meeting of the Lewes District Council.I will put my hand up and say that it was I who was impudent enough to dare voicing opposition to the Tory Motion.
I should, point out that their motion was based on a model circulated by their central office that was put forward by Tory groups on councils up and down the country - we were the only Lib Dem Group to amend it in such as way. You can make your own mind up about who was acting on orders from where .The Tory group was well aware we could not support the motion and was attempting to play politics with the issue .
My amendment said that instead of dividing the council down Party lines as the Tory motion was designed to do , let’s unite by supporting the idea that we need an honest debate on Britain’s membership of the EU , rather than a narrow discussion of the single Treaty.
Sadly the , the term ’honest debate ’ is well outside the Tory Lexicon. The result is that your district Council is now committed to asking the Prime minister for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. A discussion the Tories have no interest in because they are so divided they don’t have an answer .On the other hand we have a clear view . We support Britain’s membership of the EU but want to see far reaching reform of all areas staring with the damaging Common Agricultural Policy, to make the EU work better fro British people .
Anway having failed to force their motion through the Tories abstained in the vote so the amendment was carried . Once again when the issue of Europe arises the Tory response can be summed up in two words , “WE abstain”
As queasy mix of pomposity and mendacity as you will find on any Council anywhere and there is nothing that the Councillor says that is not a lie in one way or another . I have replied below and I hope this time the Pro Liberal Express lets me in . The bias of our local paper is starting to become really irksome. Liberal conspiracy eh , gets everywhere.
NEWMANIA REPLIES
"Dear Sir
It’s a salutary thought, that Councillor McCleary thinks there is an audience so mentally enfeebled, as to be fooled by his vacuous bluster. I doubt, it but just for the record, these are the facts.
The Lisbon treaty is the disguised EU constitution, on which a manifesto commitment to support a referendum was made by the Liberals. The status of the treaty, soi disant, can be confirmed by any European leader you care to mention from Angela Merkel to Guilian Amata, ( former Italian PM), who sums it up nicely. ” The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no-one can ask for a referendum about it “. Quite .
In the event the Liberals reneged on their promise, and without them the principled Labour rebels are not enough to stop the betrayal of the country by its elite. Norman Baker surreptitiously slipped out his personal complicity in this shameful lie. So much for, “honest“, debate.
Their motives are equally self evident .The referendum that 70% want would be lost and the Liberal seen as conspiring with European bureaucrats against the British people . It is to avoid this they concocted their fiction of refusing to talk about it at all unless we talk about EU membership. Its like catching a man in bed with your wife who says “…can we unite in an honest discussion of fidelity and its place in society”. I think not.
The Conservative Party is deeply sceptical of the EU and committed to this countries sovereignty. The lists of dead on Lewes War memorial demand no less . Within these parameters there are a spectrum of honest views about the countries best interests but that is a world away from selling out the people and the country with a cheap trick.
So, Councillor Mac Leary can rage and rant, all he likes I enjoy a bit of theatre . King Lear, after has searing passages of tragically incoherent babble magically retaining their grandeur . King MacLeary is full of tragically incoherent babble. Well it’s a start
Your Sincerely
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