tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post1822464352350535803..comments2023-10-26T00:08:26.205+01:00Comments on The Boiling Frog: Record Low...TheBoilingFroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00791961503315586243noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-73250364395239327762012-04-06T19:24:58.003+01:002012-04-06T19:24:58.003+01:00We'll need to get this campaign going soon - v...We'll need to get this campaign going soon - vote for anyone but the Big 3.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-7751342825424115812012-04-05T19:43:37.140+01:002012-04-05T19:43:37.140+01:00Interesting. I've been reading a few of the U...Interesting. I've been reading a few of the UK blogs, and it appears you have a kind of "underground Tea Party movement". It does not seem to have entered the mainstream of your body politic though. Still, when a major writer like Mr. Hastings (whose book on D-Day set the standard IMHO), its not a bad thing.attack on Iranhttp://www.war-in-middle-east.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-12513655860019984562012-04-05T18:11:39.990+01:002012-04-05T18:11:39.990+01:00@JiC I do remember that yes, John Major tried to a...@JiC I do remember that yes, John Major tried to argue that enlargement with more QMV "[made] it easier for Britain, in alliance with other countries, to block federalist measures". He was wrong on that as well as Maastricht<br /><br />@Curmedgeon Sadly yes you're right<br /><br />@Anon thanks, I think the British public have woken up to the fact democracy is broken, I'm not sure yet whether they've made the next leap forward in what to about it.<br /><br />@Farmland Investing, thanks for your comment - Max Hastings is far too late to the party (as it were) to take him seriously. He still doesn't fully acknowledge the EU element.TheBoilingFroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791961503315586243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-75408122471331158822012-04-04T23:01:11.705+01:002012-04-04T23:01:11.705+01:00The UK is ripe for a new party like the Tea Party ...The UK is ripe for a new party like the Tea Party in the States. Maz Hastings had a great piece recently on how faith in politicians has almost completely disappeared.farmland investinghttp://www.greenworldbvi.com/alternative-investments-options/agricultural-farmland/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-32568278690780215742012-04-02T16:28:07.666+01:002012-04-02T16:28:07.666+01:00Great post TBF, surely [maybe], or is it too much ...Great post TBF, surely [maybe], or is it too much to hope that British public are at last waking up to this great governmental charade.<br />The last two weeks [in the Westminster circus] have bordered on a 'theatre of the macabre', old Fred Karno would have been envious.<br />'Orf with their heads'- the lot of them [would they be missed?] then for the mandarins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-37607725267835737102012-04-01T17:20:07.236+01:002012-04-01T17:20:07.236+01:00Yes, and helps explain why so many voted for Gallo...Yes, and helps explain why so many voted for Galloway (scumbag though he is) last Thursday.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693950082152211516.post-89116961066297874852012-04-01T16:46:16.730+01:002012-04-01T16:46:16.730+01:00TbF, do you remember the reports, in the late 80s ...TbF, do you remember the reports, in the late 80s and 90s, that we shouldn't concern ourselves too much about the democratic deficit of the EU because the inclusion of the Eastern European countries (who had lived for 50+ years under communism) would bring a block of votes into the EU that would challenge the extant socialist agenda? I may have some details wrong, but that's the core of what I remember being told. And yet, nothing has changed; the socialist dictatorship that is the EU just rolls on regardless. I actually believed the stories then, I don't now.<br />Oh, and 'public anxieties' are not a problem for the public; they are a problem for those who don't want the public to be involved in their nefarious deeds.john in cheshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179825507377423624noreply@blogger.com