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Labour Hell Is Media Middle Ground

Labour has misused the law so badly that things that should be civil matters are mostly crimes, and things that should be crimes are dealt with as civil matters - in the sense of 'the criminal couldn't help what he did - if only he had not been froma poor family'.

The result - society is angry. But as the government controls the media, (and tries to control the blogs too), it is almost impossible to hear a critical word. The middle ground is not where the media tells us it is. That is merely what the media pretend it to be. Most people want criminals dealt with severely and effectively, prisons built, severity of punishments increased and so on. That is where the middle ground actually is.

Posted by: Tapestry | November 30, 2006 at 20:25

Mark, I think the judges have lost respect for the law they have to administrate a long time ago. Before appointing judges now, they are interviewed about their racial bias and other political attitudes. The law should be colour blind. Nulab have created this nightmare world where no one has any respect for anything any more, and the media assure us we're slap bang in the middle ground.

In fact we are now in the midddle ground of hell, no more and no less. Thank God Cameron's trying.

If only he'd dump Hague, and get the EU side of things sorted out, we just might be able to make a start of the Herculean task of rebuilding this country. But first he has to play cat and mouse with cultural marxists dug into the BBC and the media - and play along until he properly can go for the standards that we deserve in Britain.

Cameron is the only hope.

Does Cameron Understand Relative Poverty?

As for numbers of kids in houses, my brother and his wife have 6 kids. It was stated that the house was a bit small. One day I was playing cricket and met a fellow from the opposing side who had grown up in the same house - one of 11 children.

I remember reading a biography of an Australian who had grown up in poverty. When they arrived at primary school, they realised how sorry they felt for rich peoples' children . The poor things had to sleep on their own separately in their own room. It was so much more cosy sleeping four to a bed.

It seems that the rich suffer from relative poverty!

Am I A Tosser?

George Osborne, Conservative Shadow Chancellor thinks that people who get into excessive personal debt are revealing 'the tosser within'.

So I wondered.  Am I a Tosser?  Well I must be. I'm in debt to hundreds of thousands.

If I wasn't I wouldn't have a house or a business. Debt is also known as leverage. To the question, 'are you a tosser?' I suppose I would reply 'No. I'm leveraged.' or maybe 'highly geared.'

The more people who leverage, the more economic activity and jobs there will be. There's a balance to strike somewhere.

Maybe slogan could be - 'don't borrow for show. only borrow to grow.'

Hague Pulverises Prescott - And Writes Rubbish

Reports from today's PMQ show Hague running rings around Prescott.  As usual a good performance by hague is recieved with calls for him to become Party leader.  I disagree.

Hague is a striker, maybe the best one in the team. But he'll never make a manager. Speaking talent and leadership quality should not be confused. Think of Kevin Keegan as a parallel.  Great on the pitch, one of the best in his day, but not a leader from the touchline, so to speak.  Hague's much the same.

For evidence see Hague's dreadful piece in the Sunday Telelgraph this week, giving appallingly weak arguments for eliminating nation states in favour of corrupt international bodies.

Support these bodies, was the title, or count the bodies. It was classic Bildeberg nonsense, the secret group that Hague is a longstanding member of.

Hague is a combination of brilliance as a communicator, and debater with pusillanimous strategic sense. Thank God for Cameron. Hague's ability makes him a danger to the Party. He can never see the wood from the trees.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/26/do2605.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/11/26/ixopinion.html

Confused By Cameron? Why?

Cameron is not pushing the Lib Dem agenda.  He is appealing to Lib Dem voters, and ex-Lib Dem voters.  As most ex-Labour voters (the largest growing sector of floaters) take a pit stop with the Lib Dems before moving on, Cameron is pitching at the largest target market available, and doing well with them.

His problem is the Conservative right wing which shudders at every PR success in the above campaign.  On poverty Cameron hasn't gone left wing.  He's actually reaffirmed Conservative thinking, and developed it by saying that The State has not the answers to poverty.  But no one looks at what he's actually saying - only at the headlines.  Of course he sounds left wing.  That's the whole idea!

His other problem is the EU-backed Murdoch media.  Like IDS and Thatcher before him, unless Cameron bows down to the EU, he'll get a kicking from the Murdoch quarter.  The EU Competition Commissioner decides whether Murdoch can keep his media privileges or not.  If Murdoch doesn't keep Cameron out of power, the EU might trade with another ambitious entrepreneur, and split away some Murdoch privileges.  Will Richard Branson become the next one to prevent Britain escaping the clutches of Brussels? 

If Cameron's own people realised why Murdoch was hunting Cameron - because he is alleged to be a europsceptic by those in the know (Ed Balls etc) - they would be very satisfied with his leadership.  Meanwhile Farage at UKIP thinks he's going to pick up lorry loads of Conservative votes.  As usual he probably will at the Euro elections.  At the GE, Conservatives will return to the fold despite their ruffled feathers.

Who Killed Litvinenko?

Police have been examining two meetings Mr Litvinenko had on 1 November - one at a London hotel with a former KGB agent and another man, and a rendezvous with Italian security consultant Mario Scaramella, at a sushi restaurant in London's West End.BBC WEBSITE

The Italian connection is interesting. Litvinenko was told while he was still working for the KGB that Italy's political class was heavily penetrated by the KGB and that the KGB's main agent in Italy was Romano Prodi.(The UKIP MEP Gerard Batten read out these allegations to the EU Parliament. A video from Channel 4 News can be found on the UKIP website. http://www.ukip.org/ukip_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=2749)

Prodi, now Italy's Prime Minister was previously Head of the EU Commission.

He was also involved in the Aldo Moro assassination. He informed Police of the whereabouts of Moro's corpse. When asked how he knew where it had been (the boot of a car), he said that he had received the information in a seance.

Clearly Putin has much to worry about with the investigation Litvinenko was making into the death of the murdered journalist. Putin's statement that there is no evidence of a violent death is obviously macabre and not exactly a balanced view. Putin has to be suspect number 1. But many Italian politicians must fear exposure too. Maybe it was a combined effort.

Cameron Socialism Confuses Labour Monetarists

Poverty is by definition relative. So why the excitement?

This relative/absolute poverty play is a word game out of which Cameron sees votes.

The left defined the terms of relative poverty (which they call just 'poverty' implying that it is infact absolute poverty) as earning below 60% of the median wage.

If David Cameron agreed with the definition, then Tories that worry if Cameron is selling out to socialism would have something more to go on. So far he hasn't done that, and he isn't likely to.

Absolute poverty is not defined by him either. It used to be thought of as going hungry, not having a roof over one's head. Today it's more like whether your kids can afford mobile telephony. Cameron though has not stated what he thinks absolute poverty is.

Now he has exonerated himself from doing so. By saying that he believes relative poverty is the standard of poverty for politics to work on and not absolute, he only needs to define relative poverty.

I am confident he won't ever do that in monetary terms. In his speech today he defined poverty in social not monetary or numerate terms.  He's playing a brilliant PR game, confusing a flattered Polly Toynbee into proposing a minimum wage increase in effect to around £9/10 an hour. Which would clearly be a disaster and cause largescale unemployment.

 

He's got the socialists running all over the place, as he seizes their ground from under their noses.  They are the ones now who define the human condition in money.  Cameron the Conservative is defining humanity in social terms, saying that shortage of money is not a cause of poverty, but the result.  He's reversed the roles.  His opponents are covered in confusion. 

Toynbee Advocates 3 Million Unemployed

Toynbee today in the Guardian advocates the minimum wage as the best way to speed up the tail of the camel train.  She says that all wages must be a living wage able to support a family.

She would cause a surge in unemployment by ignoring the market to such an extent, and that would consign millions to the dustbin of society, impoverishing the very children she claims she wasnts to help. 

A living family-suporting wage is nearer £9 an hour than £5.25 - the current level of the minimum wage.  Probably 3 million jobs would be lost overnight sending Britain's unemployment to 20%.

While we all love Polly's imagery, we must try to keep one eye on reality.

Of course she is on a high with all the flattery and attention coming her way today.  Poor thing.  She is one of the least loved of all columnists.  A bit of love from David Cameron's team must have melted a portion of her iced over brain. 

As Boris points out in the Torygraph, she is as unable to connect her rhetoric with her own reality.  It is not surprising she wants the rest of us to join her in her world of make believe.  It must be so lonely.

If she wants employers to raise living standards, which is what employers do better than any politican, don't bury them in red tape.  Get out of the way and let them get on with building the real society Toynbee's pen can only dream of.

Wipe The Smile Off Their Faces

Iain Dale finds humour in most things.  Even in obscene, sexual bullying of teachers by unruly pupils. see www.iandale.blogspot.com

Come on, Iain.  Your liking for amusing repartie is drawing you away from the crux of the issue here.  The whole situation's gone beyond anything acceptable in a civilized society. 

Schools must bring back corporal punishment, and so too must the courts be able to award punishments whih instil fear and respect. 

Without fear there is no respect.

Politicall, it would have to be as part of a localisation programme.  There should not be a national decision to cane children and yobs.  Cameron's new British Bill of Rights should though permit locally elected officials to bring in programmes of corporal punishment, but the final decisions must be taken locally.

Keep your sense of humour please.  But don't duck the core issue.  Human nature has an evil aspect which will grow if left unchecked.  The social experiments of the 1960's have gone full circle, and failed.  Let's bring back civilized standards of behaviour.  And yes that means corporal punishment.

Freedom Calls. Britain is Finished.

The Government is introducing a national surveillance system to monitor parenting of children. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=430W2G0VXJBAZQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/11/22/nchild22.xml

This is the end of civilised life in Britain.

Only Nazis or grossly naive idiots could come up with such a scheme.

I will never bring up a family in the UK.

Contrary to what Blair says, of course there will be state interference in families. Otherwise what's the point of all this?

When will people wake up to the fact that we are being encircled by sinister forces of bureaucracy out of control? They must be stopped. 1984 we thought was fiction, but now we know it was true all along.

There are other countries in the world where people live free from state power. That is what used to be good about Britain. But since the Maastricht Treaty, it's been downhill all the way.

My kids will grow up free. That means outside the EU.