"You're Stealing Our Votes"

From Derek Bennett, this comment resonates with me - as a UKIP candidate who stood (my emphasis):

When out campaigning for UKIP I was told by Tory activists that Cameron was a Eurosceptic, really but had to play it down. At the hustings meetings Tory candidates spoke out against the EU, and on election night when my Tory parachuted in opponent lost he moaned at me: “I hope you are happy with yourself” as he blamed me for preventing him from knocking Labour out in Walsall South.

Nonsense On Stilts

Firstly a quick apology for a temporary decline in the number of my posts - real life is currently getting in the way.

In the meantime I thought that I would highlight the ongoing drama that is David "it's just a flesh wound" Cameron, and there's so many quotes in this Telegraph article that it's hard to know where to start:

David Cameron 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.

A shift in power to the people? Is Cameron promising a referendum on the EU? Oh don't be silly:

Mr Cameron said Labour's targets ''bred bureaucracy... created inefficiency and unintended consequences (and) crushed morale in the public sector.

Bred bureaucracy? What about that other place. Oh sorry we mustn't mention that a la "He who should not be named":

Instead of bureaucratic accountability to the Government machine, these business plans bring in a new system of democratic accountability - accountability to the people.

"Accountability to the people?" Now there's a novel idea, it might even catch on:

''We will be the first Government in a generation to leave office with much less power in Whitehall than we started with.

Ha ha! Yes because you gave most of of it away to Brussels - this is one 'cast iron' promise Cameron may actually be able to keep:

Mr Cameron said the move would help reverse the trend towards centralisation of power in Whitehall and would encourage ministers and officials to govern for the long term.

''We are going to take power from government and hand it to people, families and communities - and how we will do that is set out right here in these business plans.

''In one of the biggest blows for people power, we're shining a bright light of transparency on everything government does.

I'm truly astounded, he really has surpassed all my very low expectations of him. The "Cameron piss-take-o-meter" has just gone so far off the scale it needs re-calibrating for further tests.

Autonomous Mind has a great post here about Cameron's deceit.

Then yesterday, former eurosceptic now converted 'where's the soap' William Hague appeared on Andrew Marr (my emphasis):

As proposed, it would not give rise to a referendum because our proposal - and we will publish our legislation on this in the coming week - is that if any government, if we or any future government propose to hand over new areas of power to the European Union, then there must be a referendum of the British people.

Ah new areas, and so fulfilling Carswell rule number 2. Congratulations Mr Hague you've now joined Mr Redwood's club. 'The People' naturally weren't informed of the 'new areas small print clause' when Cameron gave his speech here.

Hague's interview continues:

ANDREW MARR:

But you're going to give away billions as well. And, furthermore, the 2.9% hasn't yet been agreed by the European Parliament who could push it higher. So what happens if they do that?

WILLIAM HAGUE:

It can be blocked. This is the … What you're talking about is the budget for next year …

ANDREW MARR:

Yes.

WILLIAM HAGUE:

… that has to be agreed between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers. David Cameron at the European Council ten days ago assembled much more than what we would call a blocking minority to ensure that the Parliament and the Commission cannot have their way, and that will save the British taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds, probably four hundred and fifty million pounds…

ANDREW MARR:

(over) So I come back to the question what happens if they increase it beyond the 2.9%?

WILLIAM HAGUE:

They will not be able to.

ANDREW MARR:

Why not?

WILLIAM HAGUE:

Because we have now got 11 countries lined up with us out of the 27 to say you cannot have more than 2.9% whatever you do. And I think David Cameron did extremely well with that. And now there is an even bigger task to address the point you're making about European expenditure …

Whoops. Hague will come to regret that; "They will not be able to" remark.

Then the Telegraph editorial today:

The EU juggernaut must be stopped
Telegraph View: 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.

A bit too pleased? Blimey even the Telegraph has noticed that Cameron has...er... not done as well as hoped, however in the spirit of true Conservative misguided optimism it writes:

Until now, Mr Cameron has given the impression that he knows how to stop the EU "juggernaut", as he rightly calls it, in its tracks.

That's translated as; "wait 'till Dave gets in then we'll see that he's Eurosceptic":

But every British prime minister has made a similar claim, and every one of them has failed. If Mr Cameron is not to join their number, he must find a way of turning his rhetoric into action – and quickly.

My comment in response to the editorial is currently the 2nd most popular on the Telegraph article.

Threats

If I received personal threats which endangered my personal safety then the last thing I would do is tweet to all of my followers a letter which contains my full home address for the whole of the world to see.

That isn't really very bright.

EU Parliament Used As A 'Rest Home'

Liberal Democrat MEP, Graham Watson, who supports the selling out of our armed forces, admits the blindingly obvious:

Watson, who was first elected an MEP in 1994 and is a former leader of the ALDE group, says that in his first 15 years in parliament he had three "major frustrations."

"The first was that the parliament I joined in 1994 was used by political parties mainly as rest home for those who had served careers in national politics or as a first step on the ladder for those who sought them."

Well knock me down with one of them feather things, an EU institution which has a very limited role in EU decision making wasn't taken seriously by those that attended. And he also concedes:

Another frustration, he says, was that a "significant" number of deputies believed it desirable to have a "drawbridge up" Europe.

"This struck me as astonishing testimony to the difficulty of conquering ignorance," he says.

Perhaps Watson can try to expect how he thinks unaccountable institutions are likely to behave any different?

Congratulations To Nigel

I'm a bit late to this due to be otherwise engaged yesterday, but congratulations to Nigel Farage for winning the UKIP leadership, quite comfortably as it turns out. This has prompted a number of news outlets to drag up some good old UKIP smears, but they would better to listen to Nigel's speech, a classic example of nail, hammer and hit:

And this is the time to be fearless; to be strong and decisive and to push for what we believe in. For never have the political classes been more out of touch with public opinion.

Patriotic Old Labour voters have known this for a long time. The Traditional Liberals are also finding it hard to recognise what the Liberal Democrats have become.

But for millions of Tory voters, the last few months have been something of a shock.

For years I was told 'The Tories are playing a very clever game' and 'Just wait until David gets in'.

Well, David is in. And his international policy is simple:

Surrender, Surrender, Surrender.

Patriotic Eurosceptic Tories are beginning to realise that under David Cameron and William Hague their party has ceased to exist. Quite simply, they've given up. Remember the cast-iron pledge of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty? They turned their back on it and now only UKIP are prepared to put the question to the British people.

In no single area does our national interest come first...In 'defending' the national interest, David Cameron has let the country down like a cheap pair of braces.

Britain needs a party that puts British interests first.

UKIP is that party, but it needs to up its game.

I'm appealing to people who believe in the UKIP message that the best people to govern Britain are the British people themselves; not to just agree with us, or lend us their vote at European Elections.

I'm appealing for them to join us, to get involved in this battle against our political classes. When David Cameron talked about the 'Big Society' I had no idea what he was talking about. Well, here's my version of it. Let's create the Big Society of law abiding, tax paying, patriotic people and urge them to join us in this battle against our gutless political classes.

Help us to make UKIP a force to be reckoned with.

Thank you.

Guilty

Labour's Phil Woolas has been found guilty of election law:

The former immigration minister broke electoral law with what had been described as a "toxic" dirty tricks campaign against the Liberal Democrat candidate Elywn Watkins. His election win in May has now been declared void.

Mr Woolas, who won May's general election with a majority of just 103 votes, is the first MP for 99 years to face a successful challenge to his election victory on the basis of publishing false statements about an opponent.

On 5th November as well, how apt. One down...

5th November

UKIP will announce the result of its leadership elections today at 4pm, and then we can move on to try to undo the damage that this traitor has wrecked upon our country

We've Received Numerous Calls

I've just had a response from Humberside Police (which is 6 years quicker than Thames Valley's response when I got burgled). I've been advised that even though Mr Hirst appears to be smoking a joint and admits he is, unless the Police catch him in the act then no prosecution will be forthcoming. They can't prove that the joint in the video is illegal.

However using language unbecoming of a policeman, Humberside police informed me that they are aware of this 'chap' and are maintaining a constant surveillance.

History Is A Lie Agreed Upon

So said, famously, Napoleon.

Richard North's superbly researched and informative account of the Battle of Britain is blogging at its best, and it also confirms what the short man said. The history of the Battle of Britain is, and was, far more complicated than 'The Few' narrative suggests.

In order to graduate at university at history I had to essentially unlearn everything I had been previously been taught at GCSE and A-Levels. One basic principle of history is that large chunks of it are motivated by one thing - sex. I lost count of the number of 19th century European summits whose conclusions where shaped by the ability of some politicians to get close with other country's leaders' wives.

There's a fascinating book on my shelf from a lady who grew up in a Welsh mining village in the 1920s. She recounts how every lunchtime at school half of her class of 11 and 12 year old girls would wander off into the woods with married men and come back with their knickers missing. Unsurprisingly most of them ended up pregnant. Shocking!

The good old days eh? They never existed.

Reported

Following Guido's post here, I've also put in a formal complaint regarding John Hirst and smoking a joint*. Very helpful PC Spray was too.

Humberside Police details can be found here.

Will update.

*Normally I'm not bothered but in these circumstances I'll make an exception