What is he smoking?

The Prime Minister (i.e., Euroslime Dave) implicitly criticised the Chinese regime by heaping praise on the openness of British democracy, which he said makes the country "stronger" and the Government "better".

We have a nation here where democracy is dying on its feet, parliament is dysfunctional, our civil rights are being destroyed and the wishes of the electorate ignored – while the ruling elites rob us blind with their increased taxes and put us in prison if we do not pay.

This man is seriously disturbed.  No person with their mental faculties intact could possibly make such claims, and especially a man who has refused a referendum on the government that rules us and supports the undemocratic construct of the European Union.

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Is this for real?

This is almost unbelievable. Almost ... but anything is possible.

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I think we knew that

Plans to make European motorists use more biofuels could take an area the size of Ireland out of food production by 2020 says the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP). This, we are told is based on plans that countries have submitted to the EU detailing how they intend to meet their legal requirement to include 10 percent of renewable energy in all transport fuels by 2020.

Actually, we wrote this in March 2008 and again in July 2008 - with dozens of other pieces - so what took so long?. But even now, these people are not being straight. IEEP calculations suggest that the indirect effect of the switch to biofuels will be to take between 4.1m and 6.9m hectares out of food production. But, on the basis of a ten percent quota, the actual amount of land needed - according to EU estimates - is more like 15.6 million hectares.

In fact, the variables suggest that the amount of land needed ranges from 11-46 million hectares, depending on the crops grown, the agricultural systems used and the quality of the land. Either way, the area needed is much more than the IEEP calculates, and its estimate is bad enough, showing that if the EU does pursue its quotas, people really will be going hungry.

When you add the fact that biofuel production from farm crops such as corn takes 29 percent more energy than is yielded by the fuel itself - and that does not include the distribution energy to transport the ethanol – it is plain to see that this is a policy of madness.

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The EU goes on and on

The air has been taken out of the carbon trading market, says Fox News. The only national carbon trading market in the US will close its doors next month, due to stalled legislation in Congress and Republican gains in the midterm elections

Yet we also hear that the EU has said it will sell 300 million carbon-dioxide permits by the end of 2012 from a reserve to spur clean-energy projects and vowed to "minimise" the impact of the sales on market prices.

The European Investment Bank will sell the €4.3 billion ($6 billion) of CO2 allowances from the post-2012 reserve for new companies in the EU emissions-trading system and disburse the revenue via national governments "to aid projects for carbon capture and storage and renewable energy."

Let the market rule and trade is worth nothing. Give it to the regulators and they can magic $6 billion out of thin air (which we then have to pay). There has to be a lesson there.

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When Irish eyes are crying

I have a very strong affection for Ireland, having spent many happy days there, both sides of the border. Even during the Troubles, in the heart of Belfast, I found the hospitality outstanding.

It is thus singularly unpleasant to read this about the impending economic collapse of the country. Ireland is effectively insolvent – the next crisis will be mass home mortgage default, writes Morgan Kelly, professor of economics at University College Dublin.

The Irish people deserve better – deserved better.

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Now we shoot them

Two schoolboys, we are told, have been given detention after refusing to kneel down and "pray to Allah" during a religious education lesson at Alsager High School, near Stoke-on-Trent.

And did I look at the date of the article? No ... Who is the idiot who assumed it was current? And just saw this:

Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.

Parents said that their children were made to bend down on their knees on prayer mats which the RE teacher had got out of her cupboard. They were also told to wear Islamic headgear during the lesson on Tuesday afternoon.

Deputy headmaster Keith Plant said: "It's difficult to know at the moment whether this was part of the curriculum or not. I am not an RE teacher, I am an English teacher. At the moment it is our enterprise week and many of our members of staff are away".

"The particular member of staff you need to speak to isn't around. I think that it is a shame that so many parents have got in touch with the Press before coming to me. I have spoken to the teacher and she has articulately given me her version of events, but that is all I can give you at the moment."

A statement from Cheshire County Council on behalf of the school read: "The headteacher David Black contacted this authority immediately complaints were received. Enquiries are being made into the circumstances as a matter of urgency and all parents will be informed accordingly."

"Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to understanding. We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of sensitivity."

As WFW points our, this is an abuse of our education system. But it is also an indication of where the problem lies. And, if they can't see it, now is the time we start shooting the bastards.

But the article was in 2008 ... what happened then ... does anyone know?

Ah ... a happy ending.

The teacher, Alison Phillips was initially suspended – following which there following a lengthy investigation, when the school concluded that the accusations were inaccurate, and said the lesson had contained "acceptable role play" activities.

However, Cheshire East Council then said on the school’s behalf that "After full consideration of a range of other professional issues, the governing body was satisfied that an irretrievable breakdown in the relationship between employer and employee had occurred and that the employee should be dismissed from her post."

In May 2009, the fair Alison was fired. We don't have to shoot them after all! Damn.

And the next time someone sends me a cutting, PLEASE warn me if it isn't current.

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Oh woops

Scientific American did a survey on climate change. With these results, they must have regretted asking.

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That's enough Dave

I hadn't meant to do so much Dave, but Euroslime has been rather in the news lately. And now we hear that he has promised "a shift in power" from government to the people today as Whitehall departments published business plans setting out what they intend to do and how voters can hold them accountable for it.

Thus he burbles: "We are going to take power from government and hand it to people, families and communities ... In one of the biggest blows for people power, we're shining a bright light of transparency on everything government does". And, says The Independent, it really is all about "business plans" – and that from a man who has never done an honest day's work in his life.

The really tragic thing about all this is that the lad probably believes what he is saying. Yes he is almost certainly that stupid. Only if you are that stupid can you talk about handing more power to the people, when most of it has already been handed to the EU. Yet, it would appear that there are an awful lot of stupid people around, so you sometimes wonder what precisely Dave has to do to get seen for the political joke that he really is.

Anyhow, that's enough Dave – ed, as they say.

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Spoiling the narrative

The MSM seems to be taking some pains to sell us a narrative that everything is sweetness and light in Westminster, with "few signs of the toxic disagreements over Europe that once threatened to tear apart the Conservative Party".

Having been piloted in The Independent and The Guardian, we now see The Daily Telegraph trying it on - a newspaper with such questionable political judgement that one can only marvel that it is still thought of as a serious journal in some quarters.

However, even this daily excuse for a newspaper is noticing, somewhat belatedly, that "when David Cameron returned from the Brussels summit on budget contributions last month he was perhaps a bit too pleased with what he had achieved".

That is something of a misstatement, seeing as though Euroslime Dave had achieved nine-tenths of sweet f**k-all, but then The Daily Excuse cannot admit to that it fell into the trap of believing the hype.

Nevertheless, the paper is going to have to row back a little more yet, as galloping over the horizon is Euroslime Dave's nemesis, in the form of Sidonia Jedrzejewska (pictured below right).

"Who she?" you might ask, and well you might. According to Reuters, she is the EU parliament's rapporteur on the budget and is currently proposing a compromise deal. Taking the 2.9 percent offered by the Council of Ministers and claimed by Euroslime as his own, the fair Sidonia is proposing to split the difference between that and the parliament's 6.2 percent, coming up with a 4.5 percent increase.

Bearing in mind that the parliament has the last say on the budget, that proposal has wings. Furthermore, it rather demonstrates that the EU parliament is not in the least minded to spare Euroslime Dave's blushes. Soon enough, he is actually going to look as stupid as he has behaved, when he has to tell his adoring public that he has been well and truly stuffed.

Furthermore, that isn't even the end of it. Sidonia is hinting that she can make up the balance over the year, with a series of "amending budgets" - additional spending requests made by parliament during the course of the year – which will actually put the EU spending back up to where the Commission wanted it.

All we can hope for now is that there are enough people out there ready and willing to spoil the narrative that Euroslime Dave has attempted to craft for himself, chiselling 4.5 percent onto his political gravestone.

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An icy blast from the past

As we run into winter, I've been reading the first volume of the official history of the Royal Navy at war, called, "The War at Sea, 1939-1945" by Captain S W Roskill. Picking up on the earlier account of the winter of 1939-40, one reads with very great interest the following:

The acute difficulties of the months of January and February 1940 were aggravated by exceptionally severe weather. Conditions more normal to polar regions prevailed over the whole east coast during these months. For almost three weeks traffic in the Humber was suspended by ice. A ship specially strengthened for ice-breaking failed to force a passage out of Goole, and an attempt to break up the ice with an empty collier of 1,500 tons resulted only in her riding up on the ice and remaining there. Floating pack ice reached a depth of 12 feet in estuaries and swept away navigational marks. Fighter aircraft were sometimes immobilised for days on end on snow-bound and fog-bound airfields; and the guns and superstructures of merchant ships and escort vessels were permanently coated in ice and frozen spray.

Roskill adds that the same weather immobilised the German surface ships in their bases. And indeed that was the case. The German naval base at Wilhemshaven was for a time ice-bound – pic below. The pic at the very top shows the sea off Whitstable.

Interestingly, German aircraft appeared to be less affected than our own - which may be explained by the fact that so many more had air-cooled engines, but again it was certainly the case that operations were affected. The pic below shows Spitfires at Duxford during the winter. German attacks on British shipping continued through the winter, causing some problems for the RAF (to say nothing of the shipping being attacked).

Conditions on land were grim, and the picture below shows a train just outside Manchester in February of 1940 having to be dug out by soldiers. Yet, it will be recalled, during the following summer, the Arctic ice-pack retreated so much that the German surface raider Komet was able to navigate the Northeast Passage, across the top of Russia into the Pacific.

As the warmists crow about the "warmest year" since whenever, all of us would do to remember that 1940 was the start of the little cooling, so current temperatures are bound to be warmer by comparison. And thank goodness they are. The last thing we want is the winters of the '40s back - they were brutal.

But the other thing of significance is that, while the winters were cold, the summers were long and hot. Thus, the "climate disruption" that the warmists claim is a sign of climate change, that is currently giving us colder winters and warm summers in some areas, is entirely compatible with a period of cooling.

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Subliminal message?

Look closely at the umbrella. What is the message the BBC is trying to give us?

And, incidentally, the lame and the stupid are blathering about their hero not listening to the "Today Programme" any more, and getting his news from the internet. This is classic "above the line" stuff, but no more than what we've being saying on this blog for ages. Anyone with any brains has long since ceased taking a news feed from the BBC. But now the wunderkind farts, the results are splattered all over the ToryBoy blog.

There are two kinds of people in this nation of ours. One kind listens to the BBC and believes what it is told. The other looks at the BBC in the manner of a curious observer examining a specimen in a zoo, to discover what it might do next.

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Solar mania

Stand aside Louise, Dellers is on the job. Stuff your snivelling biodiversity and carbon crap. Our Man is telling us as it is – not on the blog, but in the main paper.

This has to be a first, but we hope it won't be the last.

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There was a time when we didn't ask

Burdened by the huge number of foreign prisoners in our jails, who object to being returned home to serve their sentences, Euroslime Dave is to "personally intervene".

More than 11,000 of the 85,000 people in English jails are foreign nationals, so little Dave is going cap in hand to countries such as Jamaica (Jamaica FFS) – of whose citizens we hold some 900 – to ask "pretty please" if they would be ever so kind and take some of their dregs back, to save us the expense of keeping them.

There was a time, of course, when he did not bother asking. Her Majesty's Representative, in whatever benighted spot, would simply invite local dignitaries to cocktails on the quarterdeck of whatever passing warship could be arranged. An amicable agreement would be reached, failing which personal deliveries of a different kind could be arranged.

And yes, he said, wearily, I know we can't send gunboats all over the globe any more – especially as they are shortly to become Anglo-French gunboats, with not a single resignation in the ranks of the Queen's Navee. And yes, he added wearily, I do know what happened to the warship pictured – which is why I chose it.

But for all that, there is something ineffably limp and weak about the way we do business these days. One yearns for a sign of firm, masculine leadership, instead of this wishy-washy, craven kowtowing. As it stands, certain personages would not be amused.

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More sense than most

Peter Hitchens picks up the Anglo-French defence agreement, talking more sense than most.

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A world gone mad

If you weren't already in a blind fury, and you haven't already done so, read Booker. Then read how "top British charities" are giving money to Muslim fundamentalists. Enjoy the prospect of the NHS paying for five star hotel rooms, note how Westminster is to spend £2 million on traffic wardens, while cutting other "services", and how we must all dig deep for a few gifts for our masters - a mere €40,000-worth.

Then see how, by a convoluted process, our wet as ditchwater policy on pirates could mess up our energy supplies, even as they get a $9.5m record ransom. Still, if you want piracy, watch the feed-in tariff is, as expected, turning solar panels into a new gold rush that threatens to ruin our countryside ... and make millions for the Germans and Chinese – to say nothing of farmers. Somali thugs are small beer in comparison.

We can certainly reflect that they are amateurs compared with this lot, the "world leaders" who are looking to carbon taxes to fund fight against climate change. International travel and "carbon intensive goods" like petrol cars could all be taxed under new plans to raise £60 ($100) billion every year to help the "poor world" cope with global warming.

If that doesn't worry you, think about the way the EU is "helping us" with the de-industrialisation of Britain or the way that MPs are still on the take. On the other hand, seeing the Mayor of Stockport being arrested in a "benefits fraud" is, I suppose, just a sign of the times. I wonder what happened to him. And needless to say, we do love being told by the multi-cult, left wing Rowntree Foundation that we whites "must do more to help Muslims feel at home".

Nor can we gain any comfort from the idea that the government of the land is in good hands. With the Coulson debacle continuing, more than a few are questioning Cameron's judgement. Only an idiot could hire the former boss of phone hacking journos for a communications director.

And talking of a failure of communication, when the climate change horse is not only dead, its flesh rotted and its bones bleached white by the chill winds of global cooling, the warmists are still intent on giving it a good flogging in a last, desperate attempt to revive it.

And, while Council Tax defaulters and BBC license defaulters still regularly get sent down, the state is planning to ensure that at least 46 convicted terrorists will be freed from jail, despite being judged to "pose a risk" to the public. Clearly, it is better to conspire to murder fellow citizens than to fail to pay the state what it believes is its due.

Of course, at the behest of the foreign judges who increasingly rule our lives, we must continue paying benefits to the spouses of terrorists who have had their assets seized. The consorts of murderers must thus be protected, and we are required to pay whether we agree or not. Equally, thieves and vagabonds must be treated better than their victims - the dwindling few who actually find themselves incarcerated.

Needless to say, you will hardly get a better class of justice elsewhere, not that we are given a chance under the European Arrest Warrant. Pick up any others you like from this year and we can do a compilation: "Britain 2010".  Send the links to my e-mail or post them on the forum, and I'll add them to this post. Let's see if we can list at least a hundred of these jaw-dropping insanities. And then try to convince me the world hasn't gone mad.

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Cleggless

As a word, "Cleggless" could be aspirational, or it could be an amalgam of two words: "Clegg" and "useless". In this case, it is the latter, even if I wish it could be the former.

In looking at his latest failure I am reminded of a time in my life when it was part of my job to write responses to Ministry consultations. After taking them seriously for some time, we found that whatever we wrote made no difference at all. Thus we hit upon the idea of using a form letter which was sent every time there was a consultation exercise.

With Clegg, I am minded to have standard blog entry to perform a similar job. Every time he proposes something, it could be posted. It would remind readers of how useless the man is and how, in the fullness of time, whatever it is he is proposing will crash and burn, with him walking away from it.

However, since anyone with any brains already knows this, it occurs to me that the exercise would be a bit pointless ... rather like Mr Clegg, who is also useless as well as pointless. And that, I suppose, is the only point worth making.

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It started in Westminster

It was actually announced a year ago in The Guardian, when the problem was said to be that Britons had lost their taste for premium priced teas and that the company, Associated British Foods, were experiencing a fall in demand for aromatic teas such as Lady Grey and Lemon Grove.

The BBC picked it up at the time, but said nothing about the jobs going to Poland and China, even though the company had said that it was to double the size of its Chinese factory to serve the Asian and US markets and build a new factory in Poland to cater for all other global markets.

ABF said the changes were "a necessary step which will allow Twinings to remain competitive" and that it made no sense to import tea from China, package it in the UK and then export it back to the Far East.

A union-inspired campaign started gathering momentum last January and, in February, with an election in the offing, we had North Tyneside MP, Stephen Byers, declare: "The proposed closure of this plant must be resisted. We simply cannot afford to lose this number of jobs." He went on:

Twinings trades as the quintessentially British tea company, but if it is prepared to sacrifice the bulk of its UK workforce simply to increase its profit margins that reputation will be exposed as a sham. These jobs are vitally important to the town and its economy, just as they are in North Shields, and we would urge everyone to let Twinings know that these cuts should be reversed.

As time went on, and the scale of this project became clearer, it emerged that the EU was offering €12 million to support the building of the €45m factory in Poland. And now – a year after the first announcement - The Daily Mail has picked up the story.

Too late to affect the scheme, the paper reports that, to add insult to injury, workers at the plant in North Shields have been asked to train their Polish replacements before they leave their posts – having paid with their taxes to have their jobs transferred. And Stephen Hughes, the Labour MEP in the North-East, is "demanding" that the EU grant is withdrawn.

Chances are this would have happened anyway but, now we have EU money involved, we all have someone to blame and can feel so much better for having identified the real villain.

But the fact is that the people who will walk away from this will be the MPs, including Stephen Byers, who can do absolutely nothing about how a huge tranche of our tax money is spent, even when it is used to send jobs abroad. If there is a sell-out, it started in Westminster and that is where the blame resides.

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A reasonable alternative?

One should be a little careful about reacting directly to this article in The Daily Mail, and avoid focusing specifically on Devon Cadet Executive Officer Major David Waterworth.

He is slated as the man who put an end to the tradition after he ruled that carrying weapons was "not good for the image" of cadets, who can join between the ages of 12 and 18. The Mail cites him as saying: "There is no need for children to appear in public with weapons. It does upset some members of the public. There is no need for it. It doesn't reflect our aims and ethos in the Army Cadet Force. We are not soldiers."

If one reads past that little delight, we see that Major Waterworth adds that a ruling against children carrying rifles had been in place for ten years, but had not been enforced until now. Apart from people like Waterworth, therefore, one needs also to shine a light on the anonymous (so far) person or persons who, ten years ago, made the ruling against "children carrying rifles".

Nevertheless, Waterworth does have a point. There is no need for children to appear in public with weapons. But he should go further. There is no need for children to appear in public, full stop. In fact, it is positively harmful for children to appear in public – think of all those paedophiles who might photograph them. Much better that these child are kept at home with paper bags over their heads, and never allowed out in case they put at risk.

Come to think of it, though, there is no need for Remembrance Day parades either. We should ban those as well. Instead, we could have public executions for the likes of Mr Waterworth – restoring the firing squad as a means of execution. Under the circumstances, I am sure he would be the first to agree that there would be no risk of glamourising weapons from such a process. But it would provide jolly entertainment for the crowds, with the additional merit of cleansing the world of fools.

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A lack of self-awareness

Not a few people have said to me how enjoyable it is listening to the BBC, now that the journalists are off the air. And now we see a comment in The Independent where, of their DG they say, "Everything that Mark Thompson seems to do only undermines the morale in his newsrooms and leaves the BBC's journalists feeling that they are lions led by donkeys."

We could go with the idea that they have a great deal in common with the stuff that comes out of their back ends, but not in a million years could you consider BBC journos "lions". If that is their self-image, then you can see why we have problems.

But the good news is that they are set for more strikes. The bad news is that they don't realise it's good news.

SILENCE OF THE BEEB THREAD

Is the A-380 safe?

Absolutely. Nothing can go wring. And the tooth fairy is a lesbian. But I think that what worries me most though is the picture above. It appears that the crew were unable to shut down the No. 1 engine – hence the fire crew trying to "drown" it. The system is designed so that if the controls to the engine are severed, it continues running according to the last instructions received.

That means, it seems, that the engine cannot be shut down from the cockpit – or at all. Did no one think of an emergency ground shut-off? Even busses have those.

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The silence of the Beeb

Never let it be said that the media wastes a good idea. After Steve Bell played around with the theme yesterday, the Independent has its go today. I think I prefer the Steve Bell version. At least, with the BBC journalists on strike, we are spared some even more witty comment, although I have to confess that, had I not read it in the newspaper, I would have been unaware of the BBC's abstention. One would dearly love it if the silence continued.

As to the rest of the media's outpourings, one continues to find the gap between perception and reportage growing. It is thus difficult to take anything it has to offer very seriously. Years of charting its output, combined with my current task, is leading me to the conclusion that there is no such thing as "news" in the sense that the media would have us believe.

News reporting is not a matter of discovering and publishing facts. Rather it is a process of gathering accounts from a very limited number of approved sources, and stitching them together to provide a defensible narrative. Any relationship with actual events, much less the truth, is entirely coincidental - and usually accidental.

Funnily enough, journos will argue that their output is the "first draft of history". More and more I would dispute that. It most certainly is a version of history, but most usually one which cannot be relied upon as a record of what happened. The closest some of them will ever get to accuracy is today – as long as they are BBC journos waving their banners outside the television centre.

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Terrifying

Has Peter Oborne been captured and replaced by aliens? Is there any political journalist left on this planet?

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Totally stuffed

With the ink barely dry on the Anglo-French military agreement, TLOTK does this (above)! You can bend over and kiss goodbye any special relationship with the Septics. As long as the Kermits are in bed with the Chinks, and we are in bed with the Kermits, we are totally stuffed. Now, the Septics won't even tell us the price of a cup of coffee in the Pentagon, much less give us any sensitive intelligence.

The Boy Slime was off his freaking trolley signing a deal with the Kermits. He might just as well have parcelled up all our military and industrial secrets and sent them direct to Peking, cutting out the middle man.  Did I say we're totally stuffed?  We're totally stuffed.

The New York Times gives much more detail of the visit, and makes it quite clear how deeply embedded the Chinese and French leaders are.

And this really is a problem. The EU may wish to call China its "strategic partner", and Sarkozy is obviously convinced that there is a euro or two to be made out of the relationship. But, to the United States, China is a potential enemy, not least over the potential flashpoint of Formosa.

Thus, you cannot be a "strategic partner" with both China and the United States. The UK has to chose and, in getting into bed with the Kermits, it has made its choice. It is a dangerous, stupid choice and one that we will all have cause to regret.

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A message from our sponsor

... well, mine actually. Continuum (my publishers) have started their own blog - and even given a nice plug to "days of glory". And just because the Battle of Britain period is over, that doesn't mean that the work has slackened off. I've made very substantial additions to these four posts, here, here, here and here. I've also been working on updating the introduction, explaining the rationale behind the blog and the book.

One thing I'm particularly pleased about is some of the photographs added. A kind reader sent me a link to pics of the Birmingham Blitz, which I have used. Additionally, I've been able to find some very rare photographs of the ships and equipment that were going to be used for the invasion of Britain, including some of the Marinefährprahm (above) which came too late for the invasion – these seen off the island of Leros in 1943.

The pics include the one above (top), which shows a rare scene from an invasion rehearsal, which illustrates what the beaches of England during "Invasion 1940" might actually have looked like, as horse teams are lead from converted Rhine barges.

From this, the only way you can take the German threat of invasion seriously is by knowing absolutely nothing of the equipment they planned to use. With any knowledge at all, it is evident that it would have been a complete disaster. Anyhow, the work goes on.

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"Epic squalor"

Had one not already loathed the man, then euroslime Dave's decision to appoint his own personal photographer would be as good a reason as any. It certainly gives Steve Bell at The Guardian a good excuse for a pop at The Slime, which is another very good reason for regretting the decision.

We've always said of Cameron that he is a poor politician, but this sort or arrogant stupidity will be the death of him. He is making himself a walking target. Then, I suppose, a fool and his vanity are not easily parted. He will go down with his pride, unaware even that he has done anything wrong.

At least the lame and the stupid recognise that it has been an own goal, describing the subsequent parliamentary exchanges as "epic squalor".

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We knew this

... but it is good to have it confirmed. The climate scare is gradually falling apart. And with no US "cap and trade", there will be no money to sustain it. The scaremongers will move on to find more profitable causes.

The big problem now is to get through to the idiot politicians, to undo some of the damage they and their predecessors have done. That is going to be difficult. We still have legislation on the stocks, introduced on the assumption that BSE was going to cause a large-scale epidemic in humans. Getting legislators to claw back on legislation is one of the hardest tasks known to man.

The next hardest thing is to get those who supported the scare to admit to their stupidity. But the world does not work that way. The old scares are forgotten, and new ones forged. Nobody ever admits they are wrong. That way, we never learn the lessons and are always prey to the scaremongers, failing to recognise them as they employ the tools of their trade until it is too late.

With so many now reinventing the wheel, or asking themselves "where did we go wrong", we had it sussed years ago with Scared to Death. There is nothing special about "climate change", apart from its longevity. It is a scare, or "moral panic" if you prefer. All of them follow the same pattern. They have their own "biology", their cycles of birth, life and death. This one is dying. It is all over, bar paying the bill.

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A year ago

Exactly a year ago, euroslimy Dave was telling us all how he was going to sort out "Europe". How different it all looks now.

Meanwhile, this man is in la-la land. But then, he does write for The Independent.

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It's all a load of Pollocks

We learn from the diligent Tom Nelson that the a $52 million Bering Sea global warming project, assessing the health of the Pollock fishery, is going down the pan – having been "hit by three coldest years on record".

At present, the Bering Sea provides roughly half the fish caught in US waters each year and nearly a third caught worldwide. But the warmists have been selling their usual bill of goods, that "climate change" – i.e., warming – is going to do for the fishery. "The experiments we did up there definitely suggest that the changing ecosystem may support less of what we're harvesting - things like pollock and hake," marine ecologist Dave Hutchins says.

But now they are finding that the unusually chilly water during the past few cold years has forced the young pollock into relatively warmer regions, where they can more easily fall prey to older Pollock, causing a potentially catastrophic collapse in the fishery.

All of which goes to indicate – as we have been saying all along – that the thing to worry about is cooling. All this fuss about warming is just a load of Pollocks ... or no Pollocks, that problem being one that seems to be shared by most of our politicians.

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"Ireland has been desperately unlucky"

So writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. He draws attention to yields on 10-year Irish bonds, which surged this morning to a post-EMU high of 7.41percent. For technical reasons, which I think I understand – which probably means I don't – this is baaaaaad. Ambrose says the bond crisis is snowballing out of control. But what ,makes the country unlucky, he asserts, is that it has not has had enough time to let its medical, pharma, IT, and financial services industries (don’t laugh, some of it is doing well) come to the rescue.

Far be it for me to dispute AEP's findings – he knows what he's talking about whereas I don't – I would nevertheless suggest he's wrong – after a fashion. He's right about Ireland being unlucky ... well, some Irish people, the good guys who voted against the Lisbon treaty.

As for the rest, they come from the same well-spring that supported the country's membership of the euro, and voted for their current batch of idiot leaders. In that sense, they are not unlucky. They get what they deserve – and deserve what they get. Electing stupid or venal leaders is not a risk-free option, as we are about to find out.

When Ireland finally goes down the plug-hole – and if it isn't this, it'll be something else – the chances of a domino effect are high. Ambrose says that Ireland going down, on top of Greece and Portugal, would make it a triple bail-out – which is not credible. There are limits to intra-EMU solidarity, he adds, as Angela Merkel showed by dragging her feet for months over Greece, and has shown all too clearly again this week. The EU bail-out fund is a bluff that cannot safely be called.

I just wish they would get the Armageddon stuff over and done with. It is an article of faith that the euro is going to go belly-up and this constantly repeated "one bound and we're free" stuff is getting a tad tedious.

I really do want to wake up one morning soon and hear that the euro has crashed and burnt, and that the "colleagues" are throwing themselves (or being thrown – I don't mind which) from the top of the Berlaymont. Then, at least we can get down to the task of reconstruction. This time round, perhaps we can make a better job of it.

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Between scares

Are the tranzies jumping ship? Little Louise must have been weeping in her cups as she wrote this one ... and does that mean that the Dr Pachauri is also "largely irrelevant"? If so, that is something of a comedown from being master of the universe.

The very fact that the question is being asked, however, tends to confirm that the heat is going out of the global warming debate (to coin an unfortunate phrase). Apart from the committed protagonists on both sides, who increasingly take on the aspect of those learned academics who got so excited about angels dancing on heads of pins, the subject has virtually dropped out of the public domain. As an issue, it is dying of boredom.

Needless to say, the Greenies are casting about for a substitute. They have latched on to "biodiversity" as an interim scare - all part of the "Agenda 21" catalogue - but this has neither the same dramatic quotient nor anything like the same revenue-making potential.

We are almost getting to the situation where we will be seeing unemployed environmentalists walking the streets. As with unemployed actors who describe themselves as "between jobs", one might expect them to admit to being "between scares".

That said, we are not out of the woods, by a long chalk. The terminal phase of a full-blown scare is the regulatory phase, where laws are made to deal with with supposed threats highlighted by the original scare. This is most often where the effects are lasting and where real expense is involved. We are still dealing with the aftermath of the food scares of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

And that, of course, is where we stand now - with the Climate Change Act still in force, and ridiculous EU measures aplenty distorting public policy. They will actually outlast the scare. Such measures always do.

Thus, while we are picking out way through the snowdrifts, and bartering gold bars for rock salt, we will still be burdened by those espensive laws which our gifted legislators brought to us as their contribution to saving the planet.

But even now, somewhere, there are groups plotting and scheming, wanting to be the progenitors of the next scare - whatever that might be. And there will always be ranks of legislators willing to do their part, and protect the grateful public from yet another peril.

Would that the real truth could emerge, that the greatest threat to our health and wealth on this planet is idiot politicians, of which there seems an unending supply.

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I'm not staying up

I just needed to read, courtesy of The Guardian: " ... in the House there's a world of pain for the Democrats and joy for the GOP".

If I said, "I feel your pain ... ", I would be a liar. And The Daily Telegraph has more. All that's left is to get up in the morning and rejoice to see the Obama party crash and burn.

UPDATE: And so it comes to pass ...

... a big night for the Republicans, and for the forecasters, who got it right, says Alex Spillius of whom, I have to confess, I am blissfully ignorant.

But, the GOP enjoyed a thumping win in the House but the Democrats retained the Senate and Spillius thinks this was not an endorsement of the Republican Party. He adds: "The leadership seems to have understood this, which is why there were no ballons and ticker tape tumbling from the ceiling at their election night event at the Grand Hyatt in Washington."

According to The Guardian, the Dems are "bruised and battered – but not beaten". Hope springs eternal, I suppose. The elections are simply a "wake-up call" for Obama. It's not too late to win back the disenchanted middle ground. Is this what al Beeb is saying as well? I can't bring myself to venture onto their territory.

At least the lame and the stupid seem to have realised something has changed, while Melanie Phillips asks of euroslimy Dave whether he is "man or mouse".

I don't think that actually needs an answer, although it's quite interesting how he has attempted to bury all his bad news in one go, by dumping it just before the US mid-terms. Everyone is focused on that, so the slime think they can walk away smiling and everyone will forget.

Heh! Elephants never forget ... and neither does EU Ref. Look up "euroslime" and "Cameron" on Google.

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How to behave

Detailed instructions here.

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Look what the cat brought in

Just the man to have as chairman of the Defence Select Committee - always to be relied upon to suck-up to authority and give the euroslime an easy ride.

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Cameron hails "new chapter"

"Today we open a new chapter in a long history of co-operation on defence and security between Britain and France," Mr Cameron told a press conference at the Anglo-French Summit in London – as reported by The Independent.

One of the treaties would commit the British and French armed forces to work together "more closely than ever before", says euroslime Dave, as indeed we did at Mers-el-Kebir in July 1940.  And was this before or after we became junior partners to the Septics, Dave?

Either which way, this is bringing the art of taking the piss to new extremes. As Witterings from Witney says, the time has come for talking to cease. Euroslime Dave needs to understand the very real anger occasioned by his move. It goes beyond short-term politics - this hard-core treachery is totally unacceptable. By whatever means, and no matter how long it takes, he must be made to pay for it.

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March of the euroslime

What is incredible is how blatant it all is, and how easily they lie through their teeth as they "insist" that this will not give the European Union a role in Britain's defence policy. Despite their denials, the great greasy-pole merchant Liam Fox - so ambitious he would sell his mother for a farthing if it bought preferment - has sold us out to the forces of European integration, cosying up to his euroslime master Cameron in the process.

A treaty creating a new joint Anglo-French rapid reaction force would serve both countries’ interests in a world "where resources are tight", he says, as his traitorous master is set to announce the creation of a new Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF) of around 6,500 troops from the two countries under a 50-year deal for closer military "co-operation".

It is expected to include units from the Parachute Regiment, the Royal Marines and Special Forces including the SAS, as well as their French counterparts. The CJEF, they say, is the centrepiece of a new Anglo-French military co-operation treaty being unveiled by Camerslime and TLOTK Sarkozy at a summit in London today.

Needless to say, this "new" Combined Joint Expeditionary Force is not new. It is simply a battle group, along the lines agreed in 2004 as the core part of the European Rapid Reaction Force. Under the guise of "economy", euroslime Cameron is selling out to the euroweenies, doing more for European integration in his first year of office than Blair did in thirteen.

Of course, the lame and the stupid are wittering on about this being "a bilateral, not a supranational endeavour," which is complete and total cant – a staggering insult to our intelligence.

But for all those dim little Tories, all this does is go to prove is that the only thing more stupid than a Tory politician is a supporter of the Tory party. As they trill away about this not being a repeat of Tony Blair's St Malo summit – which is exactly what it is – all you can hear is the sound of their brains gushing out of their backsides.

This is a continuation of the Maastricht Treaty agenda, as this briefing note makes clear. Agreed by the Tories under John Major, this set up the parameters for the development of a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The process continued with the Franco-British meeting in Saint-Malo (France) in December 1998. That was when London and Paris agreed to jointly and actively work to make the European Union "able to carry out some security tasks on its own".

During the period 1999-2003, the EU set up relevant political-military structures to assess, decide, plan and execute military operations and now it is "moving ahead" to embark on a "second round". And that is what this is, the "second round" - building the ESDP, planning and organising new military "cooperation" and integration among EU member states. The current move is the Trojan Horse or, as the "colleagues" say, the catalyst.

With it, our military heritage is being sold down the river by the euroslime. These are black days. We have traitors in our midst, surrounded by fools who've woken up too late, even if, from the Daily Mail comments, it looks as if the slime may have over-reached themselves.

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Busted flush

"Mrs Obama's message, on the eve of a mid-term election that will define the last two years of her husband's first term as President meanwhile wasn't so much Yes We Can as Hopefully We Might". So says The Independent, amongst the many newspapers coming to grips with the idea that, by the end of today, the president might be a busted flush.

We are so sad ...

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A message from the past

A Daily Mirror leader, dated 8 August 1940, under the heading "Don't tie them up", declares:

SUPPOSE we stop talking about ties for the Home Guard. Give them bombs, guns, rifles and clothes for rough wear. Spare the poor fellows the humiliation of being treated as public school boys. Some of them are quite well-educated.

What a lovely little barb.

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The aliens take over

Chickens come home to roost as even the lame and the dim cotton on to the fact that The Great Leader is pulling their plonkers – those very few that have them.

Most of the problem, though, is that the faithful lack brains as well, which is why they voted for The Boy in the first place. But, as they say, vote in haste, repent at leisure. They've got him, they've saddled us with him and now we are all paying the price ... £5.8bn and counting.

And then there's the issue of defence integration. The Boy is meeting Sarkozy, The Leader Of The Kermits, tomorrow when we get sold out big time.

The Boy and TLOTK are preparing to unveil a "new approach", across the army, navy and air force, which goes "beyond the agreement last month for the countries to work together on the two British aircraft carriers".

The 13th Century Fox was trying to make his case yesterday. I always thought the man pathetic – and now he's proved it, with Autonomous Mind putting the boot in. Anyone who thinks that Anglo-French military "co-operation" isn't a Trojan Horse for the EU Army needs their brains examined.

But don't say I didn't warn you. We are in the grip of the euroslime. Democracy has ceased to function in this country - where is the democratic mandate for a merger of the Armed Forces with France and the rest of the euroweenies?

This ain't going to stop until we see blood spilled. Whoever is up there in No. 10, this is not our government ... not a British government. The aliens have taken over.

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Final solution

Same idea, same techniques. The Führer would have been proud of them ... and the Telegraph calls designing a virus to kill millions as an "educational" exercise, an "interesting solution".  The terrorists are writing the newspapers now.

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Of rebellions and revolutions

There is much more to this than meets the eye. While the Daily Mail squawks indignantly about an "illegal" rave, as if it was something special and different, barely a weekend goes by without something very similar, on exactly the same scale, being held somewhere in London. The only thing different here was that it was slightly more "in your face" than usual, with a central London location instead of the East End, Brixton or some such.

The "rave" scene, however – or "skumtech" as the players call it - is a direct response to the over-regulation of public music performances, where music must be licensed and approved by the state, even down to genre, with high taxes on drinks and door fees that make normal places non viable - to say nothing of the smoking ban.

It is not a rebellion, as such – simply a lot of people doing their own thing, in their own way. It only becomes an issue if the police move in and try to stamp their authority on the event. Normally, they keep a respectable distance and do not interfere.

What happened this weekend, though, was that the police got arsy, and tried to close the event down. Rapid texting and other communication brought several thousand "reinforcements" to the scene, whereupon the police were politely informed that they were outnumbered and told to f**k off. Short of a bloodbath, the event was going ahead.

Wisely, the police decided that discretion was the better part of valour. Making the best of a humiliating climbdown, they retreated and told the now gathering media that they were adopting a "watching" brief. The event then went ahead as planned and has run its course, without further police interference.

Had the police sought to do more, there would have been a serious number of broken heads. If in the future, the police – on their own initiative or under political instruction – decide to intervene, there will be some serious sh*t going down. A lot of little plods ain't goin' to be getting up in the morning no more.

Bizarrely, for those who are looking for signs of revolution, they have been under our noses all the time. The youth is not apathetic. Nor is it conformist, but the "skum" are choosing their own fights over the issues that mean something to them. And if The Man wants to get in the way, he will get trampled underfoot. All we need to do is stand back and enjoy the spectacle.

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