A Labour MP answers a constituent.

" ..... On having a referendum, we had a referendum many years ago and there was overwhelming support for joining a Common Market. Fundamentally, the EU Treaty is not a Constitution, and I really think that a referendum would be a distraction, especially at the moment when we need to focus on much bigger things like the global (and local) economy. Again, I think that being part of Europe is a massive advantage in doing so."

So disingenuous and mendacious that I am struggling not to swear! The referendum was won based on the lies of Heath and to a lesser extent Wilson. Heath was later asked if he had known the truth about the federalist nature of what is now the EU and said: "Know? - Of course I bloody did!"

The EU Treaty is not a constitution - true - it is only 97% of a constitution.

DISTRACTION? !!!

"I think" - not supported with any facts gets no marks on any GCSE paper!

A window of opportunity?

Dear Friends,
Wow! 19% and if the bandwagon keeps on a-rollin', both Labour and Tories are catchable in the EU elections!http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2430063.ece

And WHAT a UKIP broadcast from Nigel Farage last night and just before Question Time too! This after a weak-kneed, instantly forgettable Green effort a day or two ago and a BNP broadcast which was lamentably feeble from the start and then had a councillor mumbling and stumbling for at least half the broadcast. Main parties are clearly avoiding all the issues on the EU - it is certainly not conspiracy theory to point out that this silence is a tacit agreement between the europhile parties.

The broadcast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
/episode/b00kfg83/Party_Election_Broadcasts_UK_Independence_
Party_English_Local_Elections_14_05_2009/

[You need to join up this link as it is so long I have cut it into 3 segments.]

Please copy and pass this article onto everybody you know and invite them to do the same!

There is a glimmer of hope that we could be seeing the start of an opportunity to change the face of British politics for ever. These moments are exceedingly rare and the window is only slightly ajar. Please help us grasp this chance under Proportional Representation.

Political momentum disappears so very quickly.

The SUN later published the figure at 15% BUT it is not the same figure. The 19% is more accurate as it reflects the views of those most likely to vote.

Islamisation.

I respect the people who practise Islam even though I disagree with them. On this Blog, I have never attacked Islam although the violent jihadists have come under attack.

I am becoming increasingly concerned however, that in a nation which is mainly Christian/secular, concessions are being made to Islam almost as rapidly as the politicians and authorities are marginalising Christianity.

The Qur'an is now placed in a symbolically higher place in courtrooms; Sharia Law has been made part of the legal system through Muslim Arbitration Tribunals; the EU Directive on Religion & Belief adopted in 2003 is forcing religious groups to appoint people of other religions inappropriately.

Now, the BBC has made a Muslim Head of Religious Broadcasting.

Just imagine the appointing of a Christian to such a post in Saudi, Pakistan or Afghanistan if you wish to grasp how absurd matters have become!

Respecting people as Muslims is one thing but their current treatment is just one more example of political correctness-creep where minorities are given rights over and above the rest of us.

Party Election Broadcast by the Greens.

The recent Party Election Broadcast by the Greens was devious and disingenuous. It majored on a relatively unimportant issue where it had 'fought' the European Union. The idea was calculatedly propounded that the greens are EU realists. THEY ARE NOT. They are quasi marxist, sellout merchants with a manifesto which manages to horrify the few who may read it.

Far from perfect but ...

All politicians are liable to abuse their positions.

Congratulations to UKIP however, who have adopted zero tolerance from the outset as soon as anything has been proved against their MEPs and officials.

Perhaps I shouldn't comment but ...

When I see how many Christians who are reasonably well off do not send their children to Christian schools, I am deeply puzzled.
It is their choice, of course.
But why would you send your child into an environment which today is socially problematical and from a spiritual point of view, appalling?
Arguments about better facilities and 'helping them better integrate into the world' just do not wash.

A metaphor for life.

As a commentator on football, I really do not like Sky TV's Andy Gray very much. Last night however, he made a comment which was something like this: "Playing good football has little value; scoring goals is all that matters."

How comparable to our relationship or otherwise with God - however good we try to be it will not work. The only thing that matters is the accepting of His Son.

Traffic flow.

I return to the rather vexed issue of traffic flow. All that the so-called Greens, car-haters and tax 'em types can hope to achieve is to tax 10% of motorists off the roads - at best.

The others will afford to continue motoring come what may - and all that can be achieved is to punish them for wanting to get to work on time or being able to do the weekly shop.

This is not the way the problem must be approached. Yes of course, ever greener cars are necessary. Of course, public transport must improve but reducing hold ups will achieve much more over all.

Removing congestion points may actually add a very few motorists to the jams BUT if journey times are cut by tackling areas where traffic funnels into daily snarl ups, then much more can be achieved.

I have already explained on this Blog how one roundabout in the right place reduced my regular journey times by 27%. The net gains are substantial and you do not have to persecute motorists to achieve this.

It cannot work everywhere but should be a target and to counterbalance those places where it fails totally, there will be many others where better than my 27% could occur.

A first: a DOUBLE Loonytuneswatch award!

'Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's historic Bodleian library - because of health and safety fears.
The ruling by officials means that students cannot use items on the higher shelves of the Duke Humfrey reading room.
However, the university is standing its ground and refusing to move the books from their 'original historic location' on the room's balcony.'

The first goes to the Health & Safety fascists and the second to the Bodleian/Oxford authorities.


Daily Mail.

Party Election broadcast.

Phew. If that was what you can do when you are on a low budget - what would UKIP do with a large one?

Last night might have been short on glitz and insubstantial waffle but it made up for it with a load of facts - most of which were quite horrific.

The points made were simply unassailable.

Miss it? Watch it now on the BBC I Player:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k9fgp/Party_Election_Broadcasts

_for_the_European_Parliament_2009_UK_Independence_Party_07_05_2009/

[Link is in two parts. Join together.]

A God's eye view.

Man is fundamentally stupid even when he has a belief in God.

How often does man do something known to be wrong and hope that God has failed to notice?
How often is a wrong deed rationalised as being 'not too bad'?
How often is wrongdoing masked by saying 'Well. So and so is worse than me'?
How often is sin downgraded?
How often is sin justified?
How often is minor sin dismissed as not being important enough for God to worry about?

"He who planted the eye, does He not see? He who planted the ear, does He not hear? Psalm 94.

Long age evolutionists having another really bad day.

[My thanks to Creation Research for this excellent material. EVIDENCE NEWS 04/09 6th May 2009AD.]

'ROCK LAYERS CHALLENGE ASTEROID THEORY, according to a report in Science Daily 28 April 2009. There is one thing in this report that most will miss, so let’s do some quick math on the rock layer central to this debate, which is claimed to have formed at a rate of “two to three centimetres per thousand years”. That’s between 0.02 and 0.03 mm per year(approximately 0.01 inches). According to the International Sand Collectors Society: “sand is an unconsolidated (loose), rounded to angular rock fragment or mineral grain having a diameter in the range of 1/16 to 2 mm (0.0025 to 0.08in.).” Therefore, if the scientists in the study above are - correct, the sandstone was laid down at the rate of less than the thickness of one sand grain per year. We find it hard to believe that the weather could be so quiet as to allow sand grains to collect in one place at this rate for one year, let alone 300,000 years, and in all that time erosion did not remove the sediments faster than they were being deposited. What wonderful faith evolutionary geologists have, and what a reminder of one of our favorite neo-catastrophist’s constant comment (Dr. Derek Ager), “If one attempts to calculate rates of sedimentation in the past, the results are usually ludicrous.” The New Catastrophism, p1,Cambridge University Press, 1993 International Sand Collectors: http://www.sandcollectors.org/What_is_Sandx.html (Ref. sedimentology, time, uniformitarianism)'

Photo: A grain of sand.

Crying wolf over swine flu.

I am starting to remember all of the other officially sponsored panics of the last 20 years from eggs to chicken [Or was it the other way around?], CJD and countless more.

Add all of these to global warming - oh ... er ... I mean climate change - and we see a pattern emerging.

We have governments trying to manipulate the populations of the world. The problem is that each scare gets less scary and so one day when a true crisis comes along ... Admittedly, it could even be this one further down the line but I seriously doubt it.

Photo. A rather fetching portrait of swine flu.

UKIP aiming for poll success

THE UK Independence Party in Sheffield has launched its campaign for the European elections.
The launch at St Mary's Conference Centre at Bramall Lane was attended by Paul Nuttall, UKIP party chairman, and Jonathan Arnott, UKIP general secretary, together with 25 local activists.

Mr Arnott is a candidate for the Yorkshire and the Humber region and chairman of the Sheffield branch.

The party say they are confident of success in the June 4 elections as last time the European elections were contested, in 2004, UKIP took more than 2.6 million votes nationally, knocking the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.

Sheffield members say they have already delivered more than 20,000 leaflets in what they describe as the "most professional national campaign that the party has ever run".

Mr Arnott said: "We're in the middle of the biggest global recession in my lifetime and we're fighting it with one hand tied behind our backs with Brussels red tape.

"Our small businesses are being strangled before they can become big businesses. If you're right-wing, you should oppose the EU for its interference in sentencing and belief in unlimited immigration. If you're left-wing you should oppose it for its callous foreign policy and state aid rules that won't let the government help failing businesses.

"But whether you're left, right or centre we should all be opposing the EU for its wastefulness, bureaucracy and cost.

"If you're in favour of the European Union you have a wide range of choices – Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Green. If you're opposed to the European Union then there's just one moderate show in town and that is the UK Independence Party." Sheffield Star.

Simon Darby.

Just how warped would you have to be to vote BNP if you knew what they are really like? Their aim to become 'respectable' is not working.

"The deputy leader of the British National Party has attacked the Uganda-born Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, for being 'anti-British' and an 'ambitious African'.
BNP number two Simon Darby suggested Dr Sentamu had no right to preach to Britons and added that Ugandans were likely to kill outspoken foreigners with spears."

If they were to get as much as a single EU seat in the forthcoming European elections, it would put the case for withdrawal from Brussels back by ten years.
The generally uninformed would associate leaving with hard right politics.

Some good news though. My spies tell me that the BNP campaign is faltering and Nick Griffin's attempts to be elected in the NW region are no longer imbued with the earlier confidence.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176865/BNP-chief-brands-Archbishop-York-anti-British-ambitious-African.html

Don't be nice.

In her intro to the live song 'Proud Mary', Tina Turner announces 'I don't do nice'. - Good. It is not often a positive.

Sadly however, many do.

So just who are the liberal left who have caused almost all of the damage done to this nation in the last 40 years? -

I believe that I can answer the question or at the very least can make a worthy suggestion.

They divide roughly into two distinct and separate groups. The first is that which is based on impossible idealism and this will be inflicted onto the population at large irrespective of the damage done and how unreal the targets are. These are the genuinely awful.

The second group is those who are terminally 'nice'.

This group is made up of kind, warm, generous, honest people who are often referred to by people in general as 'bleeding hearts' or 'do-gooders'. [Do remember that the latter expression is laden with heavy irony!]

This is the group which customarily opposes the killing of vermin such as foxes, corvidae, pigeons and even rats. They are soft-centred and always see the best in others - even when that quality is entirely absent. They defend criminals as being 'misunderstood'; they would offer aid to Zimbabwe in the lame and forlorn hope that this would not find its way into Mugabe's pocket.

This group feels more sorry for people who have engineered their own downfall than the victims such people have created.

They automatically have enhanced sympathy for muslims, blacks and Asians than for Christians, whites and the indigenous peoples. Strangely, people of other religions such as Sikh and Hindu are barely considered.

The 'nice' are a truly strange mix and many can be found working selflessly for numerous good [and not so good] causes. They frequently swell the ranks of liberal christianity.

Bottom line - they are nice yes, but more important than that - they are dangerous!

Give me 'muscular Christianity' every time.

Psalm 102 - asking for comfort.

Psalm 102 (King James Version).

1] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2] Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Delara Darabi

The trouble with liberal left organisations like Amnesty International is that they have cried wolf on so many occasions and have automatically and indiscriminately supported the 'rights' of extremely wicked people again and again.
So when an execution comes along which is genuinely disturbing - who other than their standard, liberal left supporters will pay them any heed?

The case of Delara Darabi, executed in Iran this week, is one such example. The circumstances of the execution were distasteful and the genuine doubts as to her guilt leave a most unpleasant taste in the mouth and perhaps typify the nature of the current Iranian regime.


Amnesty however, decides to major on the non fact that she was executed at 23 for a crime when she was 'a child' of 17. Child?


I wonder just how many Amnesty supporters have advocated 'votes for 16 year olds'?

What an appalling individual.

David Miliband has been sending out greetings cards from the Foreign Office for many festivals, Ramadan included.

Inevitably, Christmas has been left out!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176459/David-Miliband-sends-greetings-festival-EXCEPT-Christmas.html

UKIP: the route to power.

1] Neutralise EU propaganda.
2] Make people understand that the EU is not just a niggle - it underpins everything else.
3] Let the quality of the UKIP manifesto be seen.
4] Take full advantage of PR to become the biggest party in Brussels.
5] Win a goodly number of council wards.
6] By-election successes.
7] A small caucus at Westminster.
8] Following election to become HM's Opposition.
9] Government.
10] Remove UK from EU.

If voters get angry enough to leave their apathy behind - it could happen.
The worst scenario is that the apathy and lack of interest, the vested interests and 'clone voting' continue as they have done for decades.

What is a Christian?

Christians are people who have recognised that God is not in their lives and so they have resolved to find out what the problem is.
They discover that the sin in their lives is proving to be a barrier between them and God.
They see that this will result in permanent separation from God and usually, at this point, attempt to remove the sin themselves - which is impossible.
They then discover that there is a way forward and it is one which God has already done for them.
God the Son, Jesus, has died on a cross. He was without any sin and therefore this selfless act can 'buy back' our sin; the sacrifice was big enough to cover all sin for all time. He has taken the merited punishment on our behalf.
All the would-be Christian is required to do is to: admit the sin, repent it, thank Jesus for what He has done and invite Jesus into his/her life.

That person is now a Christian.

Living the Christian life? - Ah, well. That is another story and for another time.

Motorway service stations.

Motorway service stations - have you ever met anybody who likes them?

For decades, I have fumed whenever I have been to stop in these ripoff havens. If ever there were perfect examples of 'the unacceptable face of capitalism' these are they!

Daily Mail - info from WHICH.