Tapestry Talks

Fear The Silence

Today's the day. Everyone's (North, Helmer, Farage, Hannan) writing their own version of how sick they are all feeling, and what has caused things to come to such a pass that the British government can lie and break promises, and that few seem to care. The nation's existence is being terminated, finally, once and for all, and most people apparently couldn't give a half of one fig.

My take on these events is equally to feel sickened. To describe my feelings for Gordon Brown as hatred would be to err on the cautious side. I despise him totally. His fate should be appropriate to the treachery he has committed against his own country.

Writing to the readers of today seems a waste of time, given all the words that have already been expressed in defence of freedom by others more knowledgeable, all to no effect. I want to write instead to my infant son so he can understand why I left the UK to live elsewhere in the world, to a place where human life has yet to be crushed by bureaucracy. I want him to understand in twenty years time why he has been born into a different world to the one I decided to leave.

There was one moment of hope, when Britain might have been saved from the mind-numbing traumas it is about to go through. In 2003 there was a leader of a major political party in Britain who despite all media being ranged against him, and much else besides, had the courage to stand up and attack the propaganda and lies being disseminated by the Blair regime, backed as it was all along by Brussels. The 'quiet man' articulated a new relationship with Europe, one of independent democracies trading freely with each other. He stood alone against a media totally given over to naivety and corruption, working hand in hand to bring him down, the last serious resistance to what is now about to happen.

Into such a controlled and corrupt environment truth had little chance of being spoken, let alone heard. Lies about Iraq's weapons were propagated by Alastair Campbell and Blair. Kelly who tried to stop them by exposing the lies was eliminated, and Blair's lies to the subsequent enquiry were skipped over by a compliant and submissive media.

Even then, despite the evil being witnessed by a shocked nation, there was a chance. Iain Duncan Smith was able to cut through all the panoply of lies and media control to deliver a simple message to ordinary people, who instinctively trusted him. But when the media attacked him, encouraged by Portillo and a traiterous faction within his own party, the majority of his own MPs would not stand firm and show the lying and corrupt edifice ranged against freedom and democracy, that the bullying tactics of the corrupt would not be allowed to win. They failed to back him at the critical moment.

When IDS fell, Britain's last moment of hope was gone. If only 8 Conservative MPs had seen fit to stand firm, it might have been enough to shake out the rats that have infested Britain's democracy, and sabotaged it from the inside. Since that moment, bureaucracies have reigned unchallenged and supreme. It will now be a generation before a human voice, a single mind can take on the massed ranks of self-serving bureaucrats who are descending on Britain and the rest of Europe to extract their satisfaction.

Every spoken word will be controlled. Every child will be a statistic and no one will be able to walk unafraid of bureaucratic power, now unopposed across a continent of 400 million people. The human spirit will be progressively crushed until it is finally in silence screaming for release. Tragically there will be casualties in Europe's inevitable fightback, which will ultimately come once it has sunk into totalitarianism.

The lesson for future generations is that while politicians are jostling for power amongst themselves, and attacking each other, it might not make a pretty sight, but it is a sign that things are OK. You are safe. But once they have found a way all to agree with each other, and appear unanimous and orderly, it is time to not only be afraid but to get out and move away while you still can. Only trouble and big trouble can be the result, once power is concentrated into a few pairs of hands, with no way for voters to kick out the government, and all opposition cowering in silence.

Gordon Brown's Slimy Attack On The Vulnerable

The sending home of a few thousand care-givers by Gordon Brown in his efforts to look tough on immigration is going to backfire. The details of the story are well described yesterday by Richard North on the main EU Referendum Blog HERE.

As North says, Britain cannot do anything about the millions of EU immigrants coming to our shores, including many who have come into the EU from other parts of the world such as Brazilians who easily gain access via Portugal, or Columbians via Spain. Under EU rules neither are we able to repatriate seriously violent criminals, even when they have convictions in Britain, which prompted Cameron to promise the repeal of the Human Rights Act.

While keen to sign away all control over British affairs to Brussels under the new Constitution, and lose all ability to decide who will and who will not live in the UK, , Brown still needs to appear resolute against immigration, as he knows that popular opinion is concerned by the influx of so many immigrants, overwhelming our education, health, police and criminal justice systems. Always in search of a good headline, and especially now while stories of corruption and lies are becoming a normal daily event for Gordon Brown's regime (none of it anything to do with him you understand), Brown has found some suitable victims to fit his political requirements.

By making it illegal to pay care-givers from countries ike the Philippines a competitive rate, which has 2000 care-givers in Britain affected by this and about to lose their jobs, Brown has found a slimy way to push a small number of politically and economically vulnerable people out of the UK, to satisfy his own political requirements.

The damage his is doing to Britain's reputation round the poorer countries of the world does not seem to bother him, even though President Arroyo of the Philippines has just completed her visit to Britain, where she raised this issue with the Queen.

David Cameron must surely see that this is another area in which Brown's stealthy and slimy approach to managing our society is totally inappropriate, and it should be strongly and forcefully opposed. These people came to Britain in good faith to perform tasks they were asked to do for a set period of time. In the middle of their contracts, Brown wants to alter the rules so they are forced out of a job and have to go home. It is simply wrong to treat people like that.

If Brown wants to develop a proper immigration policy, and not sign away our ability to control immigration to the EU, then he should do so. He should not make victims out of couple of thousand Philippino care workers purely to get a good headline for himself. It makes you feel ashamed to be British.

Money - The Final Nail In Brown's Coffin

Just when people might be hoping that Brown's troubled premiership couldn't possibly be driven down any lower, an expert opinion from Bloomberg's London correspondent Matthew Lynn will send a shudder down Bitish spines.

It's not only bloggers and journalists who notice when governments look incompetent.  So too do investors. Blair might have been less than competent at many things but he gave the impression to anyone who had doubts about Britain's economy, that all was well under control, and that sterling would be a safe haven for international investors who might prefer to hold it, as against the recently stricken US Dollar, or the uncertain Euro.

With Blair's departure, and Brown's clunking fist at the helm, it's not only Labour MPs doing their sums.  (Current opinion poll levels would drive 100 Labour MPs from their seats - YouGov giving Cameron an 11% lead). Money people too, eyeing Britain's ballooning deficits, - both trade and fiscal pro rata are bigger than those of the US - its incompetent interest rate regime and the errors in handling the Northern Rock fiasco, are <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aoyU9AlR.YKI">getting jumpy</a>.

When money people get jumpy they don't reach for their laptops and blog about it, they just do what comes naturally.  They sell.  Sterling against the dollar has swung from $2.11 two weeks ago to $2.02 this morning.  Have they started doing just that, one wonders?
Lynn writes as follows -
<em>But what if sterling started to fall - not dramatically, but to a more realistic level $1.60 to $1.70?

If that happened, the United Kingdom would be stoking inflation:Britain relies on imports, which would become more expensive, if sterling fell.  The Bank of England would be forced to keep interest rates on hold.  It might even have to boost them to defend the currency.  That would have a ruinous effect on the housing market and consumer confidence.  It could tip the economy into a recession...</em>

The effects of a falling currency could work in the longer term to many business' advantage of course, making British produced goods cheaper against the Euro - but short term there is one thing for sure.  Brown's reputation for financial competence would be finally shot through. 

In his current weakened state, Labour MPs might feel that enough was enough, and it was time to undo the error they made by allowing Gordon Brown to squeeze his way into the leadership unchallenged. 

The Northern Rock fiasco will have a far heavier price tag than the UKL 30 billion ($60 billion) it has cost the governemt so far.  Britain's reputation as the world premier financial services location will be damaged, let down by an incompetent government.  Hopefully the architect of the mess will be done for at the same time.

Money is not politics.  It waits for no one.  If confidence in Brown is slipping away, and it is, the result will be savage.  Matthew Lynn's article might have given a week's notice on what is now likely to follow.  A falling currency will surely be the end of hope, and the final humiliation for Gordon Brown and the New labour era of falseness and spin.

Brown Hamlet? Oedipus More Like.

In 2003 Abrahams the central character of Donorgate, previously known as David Martin, got his lawyer to set up covenants to give money directly to Labour via money mules, who had been selected to transfer money to Labour as if the money were theirs.

In 2003, you probably recall that Labour were at the pinnacle of their power. It was the time that Campbell published dodgy dossiers, when Kelly was murdered and the media covered it up, as did the Hutton enquiry.

IDS was hardly able to lay a scratch on Blair despite his obvious tendency to bypass uncomfortable truths, and was later assassinated in October of 2003 by a media assault, no doubt encouraged, if not actually coordinated by Alastair Campbell. Gilligan and the BBC tried to get the truth out about Iraq but were sent packing. Labour were untouchable at that time, and to all intents and purposes were above the law.

There were no bloggers to start asking inconvenient questions or rally opinion. There was a compliant media carrying Alastair Campbell's narratives, unable or too under the thumb to set about creating any alternative explanations as to what was going on.

Property prices continued to soar. Interest rates stayed low. The consumer economy boomed.

In such an atmosphere Labour Party officials would have felt it was quite safe to pass laws and immediately set up systems to circumvent them, legally, or illegally - who cared? Who as going to challenge anything they did? That's how it was then. The good times rolled. Until Britain got bogged down in Iraq, Blair and Labour were untouchable. Truth was not required, or seen as a necessary part of the equation.

Hubris as we know from Greek tragedies, is always followed by nemesis. Arrogance (hubris) causes a person's own self destruction (nemesis). Mrs Thatcher, for example, was accused of possessing an element of hubris prior to her downfall - when she began talking with the Royal 'we'.

Gordon Brown is now being called a tragic character, but let's get this right. He's a Greek tragic creation, being cast down by his own arrogance, following on from Blair whose arrogance has already caused his nemesis, not the Shakespearian tragic figure as Powell predicted he would become.

As in all good tragedies, Brown is unable to see why his nemesis is occurring, where the forces of his destruction are coming from. They are coming from himself, as the audience/public are starting to see quite clearly.

Brown in his final act of hubris has promised change. This follows on from all his previous ones as Chancellor, for example claiming to be prudent and in favour of low tax, while secretly and stealthily removing peoples' wealth and opportunities. He recently promised an end to spin, a reestablishment of standards and to democratic accountability.

He has no intention of carrying out any of these latest promises, any more than he did his earlier ones about the economy when he was Chancellor. The Fates were kind to him for ten years allowing the economy to prosper despite his interventions, not because of them. In such circumstances his arrogance has become complete, and total, so that he believes lying is what he must do to succeed, making his nemesis inevitable.

To witness a fully functioning Greek tragedy in the modern age is rare. Normally such human folly gets cut down to size well before it brings its protagonist into a state of semi-madness. In the age of instant media, and communications, people can usually see a problem and stop it before it gets out of hand. Gordon Brown, though is the ultimate measure of how communication and morality had become perverted with Labour possessing so much unchallenged power in 2003.

They feared their enemies so little that they wasted their energies on fighting an internal war for supremacy within the government. Iraq was just a sideshow to the real battle of egos between Blair and Brown. The whole country was left adrift while these two demi-Gods slugged it out, jostling for immortality - the prize they both coveted.

Only now with the internet is a kind of truth starting to come out every day in the blogs, which government power cannot edit or control. But Brown's tragic fall is already in process. It is far too late to help him now. Brown wouldn't recognise the truth even if it jumped out and bit him. The truth is his enemy. He will fight it with every ounce of strength in his body, before collapsing exhausted and crashing from an unequal contest, the coming nemesis now inevitable.

Running A Government Is Like Running A Brothel

The flurry of excitement from bloggers writing about the events of the last few months is starting to dry up. There is a dullness descending on events. There is no dramatic tension, no sense of possibility, only the sure sickening knowledge that it could take a long time before Britain is freed from the slide into corruption and hopelessness that the Brown regime signifies. The only flurries of excitement come from news which means the Brown regime might end quicker.

Brown's flawed. He's not an actor, a showman, who gives out energy. He's a sponge who absorbs all the juices out of the people around him, as he neutralises initiative. He's a black hole. No one is allowed to shine bright lights which would immediately expose his dullness and slowness of thinking. He is there, not to give out to people, but to receive, to take in credit for the successes of others, and to deny responsibility for his own failures. He's the total opposite of a leader.

His understanding of people is non-existent. He thinks in money. He understands the language of donors giving and getting value. He thinks that public services can be treated the same way. Give them cash, and they will give service.

His understanding of business and enterprise is also flawed. He imagines the minds of people running businesses as calculating machines determined to produce the highest figure in profit that they can. He has a one-dimensional view of the society he is responsible for. He sees only cash.

People do not look only at money. They have other needs, emotional needs that are powerfully motivational - the need to give of what they have, to feel that their lives are worth something, to belong, to have an identity and a purpose, to feel secure and safe, to be able to relax, to take risks when there is a feeling of possibility, a prospect of creating something better than what has come before. To Gordon Brown, none of these emotions exists.

That is why he cannot manage. He doesn't understand that you look at the total picture, that before people need money, they need confidence to keep functioning, to keep borrowing, lending and building.

The Northern Rock is where Brownite philosophy declares its incompetence most loudly. First Brown and Darling allowed the markets to cease functioning, by not reacting to events, which killed confidence. Then they they intervened in a way that was guaranteed to bring crisis. And then they had no options available other than pumping in all the money needed to prevent collapse. Had they nurtured the confidence of the marketplace, of all the people involved, the catastrophy would never have happened. Now it's a UKL30 billion black hole which gets larger every week.

Brown is a tragedy for Britain. That's why Donorgate is biting so hard on the public's imagination. If people felt happy with how the country was being run, they wouldn't care much about the sleazy practices that Brown likes to engage in - as with the Smith Institute, and the maintenance of a few favoured cronies. After all Blair was little different in his deceitful fund-raising, but Blair, for all his faults gave out an aura of confidence, and enabled others he never met to ride on the tide.

It's because Brown's not giving people what they need emotionally, the confidence, the feeling of possibility, the feeling that someone cares about them up top (whether leaders ever do is a moot point, but some are able to make people think they care), and into this emotional void, the creepers and leapers see their moment to advance. They only have to do something to please the oversensitive Brown ego, and their advance and promotion is assured.

People feel the moral vacuum. They see the government milking good news as if they are the only issue of the day. This is why people will listen to anti-Brown news, while anti-Blair news never got very far. In all his years Brown has never learned how to seduce and that the customer has to come first.