Tapestry Talks

Gordon Brown? No. Edward Heath.

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It's been a few months now since Gordon Brown stepped up to the plate and became Labour leader.  He's naturally enough been compared  to Blair,  unfavourably for the most part.  But the past relationship between Blair and Brown curiously offers little to provide a key as to see Brown now.  It's as if acquiring power has filled out Brown's deflated ego, and pushed all his happy buttons.  He seems a different person. 

After Maggie's visit to No 10, commentators have also been examining his Thatcherite credentials.  Looked at against either of the two former megastars of British political life, Brown now, who everyone thought they knew so well, strangely offers no resonance.  He is currently a leader without clear definition, who does not seem to connect with what he represented so recently, or, for that matter with any other politician in recent memory.  This lack of connection is troubling many.  They are hunting around trying to find how to place Gordon Brown into context.  In this void of pattern, or at least of recognition of pattern, Brown finds he can keep commentators and opponents alike on the wrong foot, giving him the elbow room he needs to establish his authority.

But is he really so unusual, and different to what has come before?   Is Brown really outside the pattern?  Not really.  Rather it is the extraordinariness of Blair and of Thatcher which has created a false context for whatever will come next.  Until Thatcher, political life in Britain had a recognisable regularity to it.  The same events kept repeating and the same ineffective attempts were made to bring about change, decade after decade.  Then Thatcher came.

She had the vision to see that it must all be swept away, and came along and did just that.  Blair was the Thatcher follow-up act.  He could see that the Thatcher revolution had gone as far as it could, and that voters wanted an end to the big upheaval thay had been put through.  He saw how to exploit the desire of people to relax and enjoy a bit of glamour, and park all the seriousness of the Thatcher revolution.  He created party time, and people by and large loved it, although his wars didn't quite fit in too well in the Blair era.  When people look back in 100 years time, it will be the Thatcher and the Blair years that will stand out.

Brown has no connection with either Blair or Thatcher.  He is not a revolutionary visionary, and he is not a party boy.  Nor is he an Attlee, a Benn, a Wilson, a Kinnock or a Foot.  So what kind of a fish is he for God's sake?

Funnily enough there is a good parallel figure who looks strangely similar to Brown from the Conservative Party's past, and one who has not yet caught the eye of the commentors as a good way to view Gordon Brown's leadership.  Edward Heath.

Heath was upstaged by Thatcher, and bitterly resentful of her.  Brown will always be upstaged by Blair, and was and no doubt will again at some point be bitterly resentful of him.  Heath filled out in office, and seemed all powerful, just as Brown is doing now.  But both were oblivious of the forces that were rising against them in Heath's case, and are rising against Brown.  It was and is their blindness to threat, or the belief that they have dealt with it that makes/made them so puzzlingly overconfident. 

They both expect/expected the Unions to cooperate with their plans to grow the economy by accepting wage rises well below the rate of inflation.  They both want the economy to grow, and for others to take on the risk, while not keeping inflation under control.  They both confuse their own interest with the national interest, and expected everyone else to carry the load of their ineffectiveness, caused in large part by trying to overcentralise all decision-taking.

They both want (ed) to sell out Britain to Europe by deception, and keep repeating their deceptions and expect no one to challenge them, believing their own beliefs superior.

Thatcher and Blair both operated with bitter enemies at close range on occasions, and were able to ignore the fact of differences of opinion, and work together.  Brown is exactly like Heath.  If Heath didn't like you, you wouldn't get a chance.  Charles Clark and John Reid are out.  A bunch of lesser greyer men have taken over.

If history is to repeat itself, Brown like Heath will impale himself on a lost general election, which he imagines he is bound to win.  Whether it will be the Unions or the issue of Europe, or something else, Brown will take one too many groups for granted, thinking he has got all bases covered, and be shocked that voters don't like leaders that offer nothing but their ego in need of a large massage.  The resulting sulk will no doubt last a generation, if the Heath example is anything to go by. 

If Cameron starts to see Edward Heath when he looks at Gordon Brown, he might play him a little better.  Cameron played Blair to perfection.  He is adjusting his act to face Brown, but instead of modernising to extremity, he might find it in fact helps to look back 34 years, for the clues as to what will happen next.  While Brown claims to be all things to all people, he will at the same time be crushing too many of them, and making others feel that the arm-twisting and power-games are all a bit unnecessary .  Heath-like cracks will be starting to appear.  Cameron needs to appear competent, and reasonable, tidy up his policy issues as he is doing, bring in more strength like Redwood who can expose Brown's incompetence, or tap into Heseltine's skill at dismembering opponents, and wait for the moment.

Another commentator going back to the 1970s to find a Gordon Brown parallel is Mike Smithson on Political Betting (possibly prompted by a post from me the day before). 

Brown Cannot Grind British Hearts Into Submission

  Brown continues to ignore the voices of a significant number of his own MPs - maybe 120 of them.  He is ignoring the voice of Murdoch as expressed in The Sun, The Daily telelgraph and other media.  He is ignoring the leadership and membership of the Trades Unions, and of course he is ignoring the voice of Conservatives, who he somehow has convinced himself he is pulling away from David Cameron.

Brown is focusing his mind on whether he can win an election.  If he calls an election and wins it, while making it quite clear that he will not hold a referendum on the Reform Treaty/Constitution, then he could claim to have a mandate to proceed towards Parliamentary ratification only.

The polling on Political Betting shows that if he tries to do this, his lead would be wafer thin, and he probably would lose his overall majority in the process.  It would all come down to whether Brown could then in alliance with Liberal Democrats and Tory rebels, get a majority in the Commons for the Constitution.

Even if all it were possible to achieve, which it possibly is, the effect would not be to produce a compliant British membership of the EU.  On the contrary, the British nation, which has sat there remarkably tolerantly for a generation while its sovereignty has been reduced and divided down, would feel cheated by the Parliamentary process, which would have denied them their promised referendum.  The topic of Europe would become politicised as it never has before.

It would become possible for a leader of the opposition to become more stridently anti-EU and to speak not only in terms of the need for a referendum, but a referendum on the topic of Britain's EU membership total, as proposed by Keith Vaz, and latterly Ming Campbell.

It would be Gordon Brown that turned Britain against the EU, by showing utter contempt foir the feelings of the electorate.  Yes, Brown understands how to work the political machinery, possibly better than anyone alive, but he doesn't understand how to deal with people.  It's the Great Clunking Fist, that will stir the spirit of rebellion in British hearts as he tries to grind people into acquiescence.  He's made all the sums bar one, the willingness or not of Brits to be dictated to.

OI! SUN! That's My Design You've Nicked

Go back in time to 2001. There was an election coming and the Shrewsbury branch of UKIP had not got any leaflets. I called head office and they suggested I designed my own. Which I did.

As I'm overseas right now, I cannot scan the one in that I made, to show you the similarity with The Sun's excellent 'son of' version above - but as far as I know, I was the first in the UK to use a Dad's Army theme in euro-politics.

I had about ten possible graphical ideas for the leaflet in 2001, and it was when a lady in our local - The Coach And Horses, in St Johns Hill - said that one of the designs reminded her of the entry pictures from Dad's Army that I followed that through and created one titled 'Who's Kidding Us This Time?'

I emailed 'Captain Mainwaring's' (Arthur Lowe's) son in NZ to get permission to use his father's image on the leaflet which he gladly gave, saying that his father would have approved of the sentiments expressed very much. But later on the BBC decided that we were not allowed to use it. We replaced Mainwaring with a Bulldog off a poster, but Churchill with 2 fingers would have been a much better idea - which we didn't have. We were working with no deadline time at all, of course with the election bearing down.

Te response rate to the leaflet had been amazing with between 2-9% response rate with donations and joining subscriptions sufficient to cover costs. It would have made a self financing campaign. We printed 2 million copies, all with a PO BOX address in Shrewsbury. The money was rolling in. UKIP NEC adopted the leaflet as its leaflet for the GE 2001 before Sykes came in a bit late.

Then the responses died. A local postman told us that 7 mail bags were removed from the local Post Office, full of our responses. Under the enemy aliens act, from WW1, the government can remove mail without giving any reason. We lost around UKL25,000 pounds, which we never recouped. We met a constant stream of people out on the street asking why we had not replied to their coupon.

Then IDS was elected as Conservative leader, and I called Owen Paterson and informed him I was coming back home to the Tories. He welcomed me back by telling a large meeting what a bunch of fools we'd been backing UKIP!

I was later approached by two ex-UKIPPERS in 2004 for an anti-EU Constitution leaflet which I made for them. It had a rusty old rocket flying out of the EU towards London - very similar to the central arrow marked 'EU Constitution' in the above graphic.

The Sun has done a good job.

THOUGHT - Who would have thought that Blair-supporting Murdoch would take a leading role in redefining Britain's relationship with Europe? It makes it far easier for Cameron and the Conservatives to challenge Gordon Brown's European Policy. If they won't hold a retrospective referendum on the Constitution, what will they do? We are all waiting with baited breath.

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Euan Blair

Cringe........we were all young once.

Uncle Derry

Cherie

CLOSE FAMILY Alastair Campbell's Diaries are a monstrous size, and expensive at UKL 25.00 However they reveal a lot. One noticeable element is the way Derry Irvine is so influential, especially on matters concerning the Blair household. Derry, for example strongly defended the choice of schools, the Oratory, despite Campbell's attempt to persuade the Blair's to avoid the political citicism this choice would entail. You could be forgiven for imagining that Derry Irvine was like the real father of one or two of the children, the relationship seems so close. Whatever the situation, I wish them all well. The Blair household was never going to be a boring conventional one. Who can doubt the love they all hold for each other? Cherie's held it all together and made it work.

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As Feared, Brown Loses Control Of Foot & Mouth

It seems odd that somehow the Foot & Mouth outbreak which was under control has broken out again, some distance from its souce. Normally only contiguous farms are considered high risk, or those inside a perimeter.

The latest outbreaks of Foot and Mouth are raising suspicion in some experts' minds. See this from www.warmwell.com

'This outbreak at Beaumont College Farm was ten miles away from IP1 in Normandy and no one is yet any the wiser about how virus from Pirbright got there'.

In previous outbreaks there were a number of reports of deliberate acts made to spread the disease. These reports accused farmers of being the anonymous callers offering to infect herds for payments. They did not consider alternative perpetrators such as slaughter teams earning big bonuses, or DEFRA officials on the take.

The fact is that all foot and mouth outbreaks could be easily halted by vaccination. The fact that this is not used in the UK when it is used elsewhere in the EU also raises suspicions.

Why Not Vaccinate?

EU Rules about live export are making it more likely that no vaccination will be used, which would stop the Foot & Mouth outbreak in its tracks.

One is forced to the conclusion that, whatever is going on, this is a political disease - with only a political cure. But with all the cards in the EU's hands, what hope is there of preventing this latest attempt to destroy farming in Britain? Brussels isn't bothered if British farming is annihilated. Defra, a Brussels agency, which makes money from Foot & Mouth outbreaks, is delighted that FMD is still in play. The farmers and the animals suffer appallingly.

The incompetence of DEFRA's slaughter programme takes some believing (SEE Note A). If DEFRA were genuinely attempting to control the disease, would this be the case? DEFRA have been caught out accepting illegal money in other areas of its operations. Why would they not take the chance to receive cash payments as they hand out highly lucrative foot and mouth slaughter contracts as well?

NOTE A. (from warmwell.com - September 22 - Misery Escalating) - "To cull" is, of course, a euphemism that means "to shoot" - not 'put gently and humanely to sleep' (see piglet story below, if you can bear it) Culling also means " slaughtering within sight and smell of each other" - it meant this in 2001 and there were many botched attempts that led - as on Saturday 15th September 2007. to further distress. That incident last week involved terrified cattle bolting and being chased for several hours, on foot and by helicopter, before being shot by police marksmen on a public golf course. In 2001 it (this kind of mess) led to yet more centres of infection being assumed.

EU Commission President Barroso Assisted Portuguese Paedophiles

JOSE BARROSO, PRESIDENT OF THE EU COMMISSION

In this article from The Independent in 2003, the true story of how far paedophilia is controlled from inside Portugal's powerful elite is told. If those who govern the country are paedophiles out of control, that explains why the Police are doing nothing to help the Mccanns find Madeleiene, and why charges are being brought to silence the McCanns and try to make them go away.

The current head of the EU Commission, EU President Barroso was the Portuguese PM at the time and it was he that ordered an enquiry into the paedophilia that had come to light amongst Portugal's elite. However Portuguese child abuse experts say that he must have known all about the paedophilia going on before as they had told him often enough.....

From a report 'After the paedophile allegations were first published, Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso ordered an investigation. Jorge Sampaio, the President and a Socialist Party leader, proclaimed, “The impunity which for decades on end has made this case a shame for us all will finally end ... Faced with the horror that so many children, who were entrusted to us to be educated and cared for, were victimised it is necessary to declare here that the guilty will be severely punished.”

He implored Portuguese citizens to trust the justice system saying, “We have to hope that our institutions work.”

However, a spokeswoman from Portugal’s Innocence in Danger charity said the organisation had been warning about child abuse for years in Portugal but there had been a virtual “media blackout”.

“It is no good President Sampaio and Parliament sounding off about the problem now and appearing to be knights in shining armour,” the spokeswoman continued. “They, like the police, must have known about the widespread abuse of children in Portuguese institutions for years. They have been warned often enough by charities such as ours but for reasons best known to themselves have remained silent.'

Gordon Brown Goes Quiet

I imagine that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who offered to help the McCanns, must know that the Head of The EU Commission must be involved in covering up paedophilia. He seems not to be saying anything now the McCanns really need his help, and the Portuguese Paedophiles are really showing their strength - even able to muscle the Police into bringing nuts charges against the McCanns.

Is Brown now too joining the conspiracy of silence in EU governments about how far into government paedophilia goes, and how criminal gangs make millions from the trade in abducted children - many abducted to order by clients who have already seen their photographs?

News organisations also must know what is going on. They too seem not to have the courage to report what they must know to be the truth.

Europe's paeophiles know they are safe, with even the President of The EU Commission acting to help them in the past. With paedophile sympathisers at the very top of the EU, what chance do the McCanns have? No wonder Gordon Brown has now gone silent.

Meanwhile kids carry on getting abducted, few seen again. As for Madeleine and thousands like here, Barroso knows the truth, but does nothing.

LATEST ON PORTUGUESE POLICE COVER-UP - The official Portuguese police spokesman in the Madeleine McCann case, who resigned last weekend, has told friends he was 'unhappy' and 'exasperated' by leaks to Portuguese media by junior officers involved in the case. He also told a former colleague he was "always worried the evidence against the McCanns was weak". Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said that the leaks were intended to push Kate and Gerry McCann into confessing they had killed their daughter. Sunday Telegraph 21.9.07.

The only question is how far up the chain of command does the cover up go.

UPDATE 11.10.2007

Portuguese Police move on paedophile rings at last. Is it too late?

Is Madeleine Mccann Abducted To Belgium?

It seems likely that whoever abducted Madeleine McCann would have removed her from Portugal. The most likely destination for her to be taken would be where the best price would be paid for an abducted child, and that, within Europe, would suggest Belgium, where child abuse is big business.

Also there has been a good potential sighting of Madeleine there. Click the link 'Belgium' to read the details. And click on the picture to expand.

The problem is that however bad the Portuguese Police are, the Belgian Police are even less willing to tackle paedophile child abductors.

Anyone who doubts the seriousness of losing an abducted child into Belgium should look around Brussels at the extraordinary numbers of missing children notices, at many tram stops and stations across the City.

Welcome to the paedophile capital of the EU, where children disappear, and the government does nothing.

EXTRACT FROM REPORT

These events produced great agitation among the Belgium populace. Many concluded that the police could not be so stupid as to miss so many opportunities to detect Dutroux' activities and arrest him. They concluded that a massive protection operation had been in place to protect politicians, officials in high places, and the child sexual abuse ring. They also believed that the government, police and courts were currently involved in a hush-up. Many public demonstrations were held.

PORTUGUESE POLICE LATEST

The Portuguese Police, instead of doing their job properly, are determined to bury the McCann case by playing politics and accusing the McCanns. As I've written in post below 'Portuguese Paedophiles Operate Unchecked By Police', their record on preventing paedophile abduction is about the same as Belgium's.

(any Brits reading this should be wondering if we really want to sign the EU Constitution and be subject to European criminal law, which allows prosecutions to take place without the need to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. It is up to the accused to prove their innocence, which is not assumed. Prosecutors need only show guilt on a balance of probabilities. As Police are well known for their skills manufacturing false evidence, what chance does anyone have without even a jury? The McCanns are forced to fight politically to establish their innocence. The criminal justice system in the EU is misnamed. It should be called the Criminally Unjust System - or maybe The Paedophiles' Charter. The relationship between European Police and organised criminals described in the above links, is highly suspect)

LATEST ON PORTUGUESE POLICE SHAMBLES -

The official Portuguese police spokesman in the Madeleine McCann case, who resigned last weekend, has told friends he was 'unhappy' and 'exasperated' by leaks to Portuguese media by junior officers involved in the case. He also told a former colleague he was "always worried the evidence against the McCanns was weak". Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said that the leaks were intended to push Kate and Gerry McCann into confessing they had killed their daughter. (Sunday Telegraph - 21.9.07)

October 1st - There is an attempted news 'deflection' created every few days to try to stop people from making the deduction that the Portuguese Police were told from high up to mess up the investigation, and cover up.  As to how high up the chain the cover-up might go, see this 

Portugal Paedophiles Operate Unchecked By Police

Those who criticised me for daring to suggest that Madeleine McCann's abduction is being covered up deliberately by Portuguese Police, should read this link.

EXTRACT - The allegations are that state-run care homes were a target for wealthy and influential paedophiles whose activities were covered up for decades by successive Portuguese governments. Since the scandal erupted the Ministry of Labour and Social Security has confirmed that 128 girls and boys who were mainly deaf-mutes at the care homes were victims of sexual abuse.

or see more extensive reporting of Police covering up paedophilia in Portugal here

and see how the Police deal with mothers whose children are abducted in Portugal here and here

PS I am told that a very similar situation exists in Belgium - the Brussels section that is rather than Antwerp. One is forced to the conclusion that much of the EU is a paedophile paradise.

Once Police don't have to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and the assumption of innocence of British law is replaced with the assumption of guilt as in EU law, it becomes easy for corrupt and perverted bureaucracies to first rape your children, and then prosecute you for doing it yourself if you dare to complain about it, as has Kate McCann.

I think we need that referendum on the Constitution you promised Gordon Brown. As you can see, Gordon, not everyone is quite so gullible as to believe that bureaucracies are anything other than self-serving organisations that democracy cannot touch. That is what you are creating by signing into the Constitution - organisations that are so powerful that they can do exactly as they wish. In my book, Gordon Brown is the biggest traitor Britain has ever had in its 1000 year history....assisting EU paedophiles to carry on raping children with impunity.

Posters, read the report before complaining.

LATEST ON PORTUGUESE POLICE SHAMBLES - The official Portuguese police spokesman in the Madeleine McCann case, who resigned last weekend, has told friends he was 'unhappy' and 'exasperated' by leaks to Portuguese media by junior officers involved in the case. He also told a former colleague he was "always worried the evidence against the McCanns was weak". Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said that the leaks were intended to push Kate and Gerry McCann into confessing they had killed their daughter. (Sunday Telegraph)

For some idea as to how high up the cover-up goes see this

UPDATE - see THE SUN getting the idea.

Cameron Should Respond To Ming

Ming Campbell s calling for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU total, echoing the suggestion made by Keith Vaz. see the full story on www.iaindale.blogspot.com

Cameron should respond to this ploy coming from within Labour's ranks and now from Lib Dem to boot by stating that if Brown pushes through the Con sucessfully through a whipped Parliament without a ref, he would then support the Lib Dem position (if the party adopt this position) and demand a referendum on Britain's EU membership total.