Category European Union
ON THE UK GENERAL ELECTION RESULT
Depending on your political point of view here is a fact which is either sobering, or which says something rather profound about the thinking of the British people: UKIP is now the 3rd largest party in British politics in terms of vote share. Under Proportional Representation UKIP would have 83 seats in Parliament: 39% of […]
OPEN LETTER TO THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR MORAY
This week I received a flyer from the Scottish Conservative candidate for Moray. His name is Douglas Ross and I know him personally. I respect Mr Ross as a politician; he has done great work for me in dealings I’ve had in the past with the breathtakingly inept and incompetent bureaucrats who wield most of the power […]
VOTE UKIP! ARE YOU CRAZY?
Well, yes actually, and that’s the great thing about the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP embraces crazy, in the non-clinical sense of the word, of course. UKIP embraces that crazy which is defined as ‘extremely enthusiastic’. This is just a quick post a propos nothing much at all really, other than that the minor political parties […]
JE SUIS CHARLIE
What on earth has happened in France this week? One of the biggest issues faced by my children’s generation is this. How do the European political elites intend to govern our societies such that they balance having an enemy within with (to quote the British Labour Party) “rubbing [our] noses in diversity”? How do we deal with […]
MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
My Fellow British Citizens Here’s the griff. A British citizen has been beheaded somewhere in the Middle East by a bunch of Islamic Fundamentalist nutjobs. Indeed, a fellow Brit has beheaded him as far we can tell. It makes you think the world is going mad, doesn’t it? But then again look at it this […]
ON POLITICS RECENTLY AND THE MIGRATION OF PEOPLES
A Remarkable Political Result It’s perhaps hard to overstate the significance of the recent elections in England and Wales, and in the European Union (EU) of which of course the UK is a member. For the first time in British history a political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), with no Members of Parliament, […]
THE SHREDDING OF THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES
Sign of the times as my Regiment lays up the Standards of 5 of its squadrons (3 having been disbanded), one of which – 48 Squadron RAF Regiment – I commanded from 1992 – 1994 … there are days when I wonder about British government spending priorities as I watch our political class divert £400 […]
INTERLUDE – WHERE’S EUROPE HEADING?
If you’re anything like me – which you’re probably not, but hey – you wonder from time to time where all the seemingly interminable nonsense in Europe is most likely to end up. Do you ever wonder that? I mean, barely a day goes by when we don’t hear, read or watch some report or […]
LIFE IN ATHENS
Just wanted to re-blog a piece by John Ward who runs ‘The Slog’ website; it speaks for itself: CRISIS ATHENS: How austerity is destroying those who would compete with multinational power.
TAX EVASION
“I’m expecting to receive this much dosh from taxpayers for doing bugger all for 3 years after I lose my job. So don’t you dare try to evade paying your taxes, serfs …”. Interesting to note that the British Government is leading a charge against tax evasion by signing the UK up to an “information […]
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